Elderly Ohio man shoots and kills woman sent to pick up ransom from phone scam, but police say she was just an Uber driver

An elderly Ohio man shot and killed a woman he believed to be a part of a phone scam trying to extort money from him, but police say she was an Uber driver sent by the scam artists.

The tragic shooting was caught on surveillance video from the man’s home in South Charleston on March 25.

81-year-old William Brock told investigators that he shot 61-year-old Loletha Hall because he and his family had been threatened by scammers over the phone.

“Mr. Brock received some scam call by a person purporting to be someone from our courts who informed him a family member was incarcerated and that he had a bond of a significant amount of money,” said Lt. Kristopher Shultz of the

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