Jason Boek picked the wrong person to assault. Moments after threatening to shoot an Uber driver, he himself was killed in what the Sheriff has ruled a “justifiable homicide all day long.”
After arguing with his girlfriend, Boek sat outside a bar in his friend’s truck, stalking her. When his girlfriend helped a drunk woman into an Uber, he mistakenly believed his girlfriend to be in the vehicle. He texted his intent to beat up the Uber driver.
The Uber driver, Robert Westlake, was oblivious to all of this as Boek ran him off the road.
“He ran me off road, jumped out of his vehicle. I couldn’t get away.” Westlake later told the 911 operator, “He came towards me shouting he’s got a pistol. Reached toward his waistband.”
The quick exchange was caught on the Uber’s dash-cam.
Video shows Boek yelling, “You know I got a pistol?…You want me to…shoot you?” as he approached the Uber. Westlake, a recent police academy graduate and armed with a legal concealed handgun, shot him once, fatally striking Boek.
Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd referred to Boek as a “goofball.”
Implying Boek was a bully, Judd said his criminal history includes previous arrests for aggravated battery, battery, burglary, marijuana possession, forgery, larceny, resisting arrest and violation of probation.
“Here’s a message for the hotheads of the community: don’t do that stuff,” the Sheriff said.
“Good people carry guns and they will shoot you. A lot. Graveyard dead.”
