INDIANAPOLIS — An Indianapolis woman will serve home detention but will not go to prison in the shooting of a rideshare driver. The Uber driver who was shot last year is still trying to make sense of the plea deal.
Uber driver Marco Batista picked up a man from a house on Winthrop Avenue on the east side of Indianapolis just before 9:00 p.m. on Jan. 4, 2023. The man’s girlfriend, Rakeasia Rodgers, came out of the house chasing the car and firing shots. One bullet came through the trunk all the way through the driver’s seat, hitting Batista in the lower back.
Thursday, Rodgers was sentenced for criminal recklessness for shooting into the car. She will serve 1 1/2 years on home detention, plus 3 1/2 years on probation.
The plea agreement dismissed four of the five charges against Rodgers. She ultimately is not convicted of actually shooting a person…