An uber driving shot and killed a man that threatened to shoot him. The man thought the uber driver had his girlfriend in the car with him and goes to show why carrying everyday can save your life. suppose he was able to get to the guys car. Was he going to carryout those threats he sent over text?
WINTER HAVEN, Florida —After a heated text message exchange with his on-again, off-again girlfriend, Jason Boek followed an Uber he thought was giving her a ride home.
Driving along a dark stretch of two-lane road in central Florida, Boek swerved his pickup truck early Tuesday morning in front of the rideshare car.
Uber driver Robert Westlake slammed on his brakes.
They narrowly avoided a crash and stopped in the middle of the roadway.
Then, Boek jumped out of his truck and quickly walked toward Westlake’s Hyundai Elantra.
“You know I got a pistol?” Boek said, holding an object in the air. “You want me to f****** shoot you?”
Bang. With one shot, the Uber driver killed him.
The fatal confrontation, captured on Westlake’s dash camera, was what the Polk County sheriff called a “classic ‘stand your ground’ case,” referring to the controversial Florida law that grants immunity to people acting in self-defense.
“This is a justifiable homicide all day long. You have the right protect yourself,” Sheriff Grady Judd said Wednesday. “This was the intent of the law.”
Boek, 34, didn’t actually have a firearm when he left his truck — he was holding a cell phone, authorities said.
And Westlake, 38, was no ordinary Uber driver. He’s a licensed armed security guard who holds a concealed weapons permit and…