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US man, 83, tricked by scammers, gets 21 years to life for killing Uber driver
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Uber driver Lo-Letha Toland-Hall, who was dispatched to pick up a package at a house, was later mistakenly shot.
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Michael Levenson
NEW YORK – On the morning of March 25, 2024, an unsuspecting Uber driver, Ms Lo-Letha Toland-Hall, drove to a house near Columbus, Ohio, to pick up a package.
She did not know that the 81-year-old man who lived there had just received a series of phone calls from scammers who threatened to kill him unless he handed over US$12,000 (S$15,300) in cash to the woman arriving at his home.
