GUADALUPE, AZ (AZFamily) — Court documents released on Thursday show what deputies say was the reason behind a man gunning down his Lyft driver in Guadalupe .

According to the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office, 29-year-old Angel Lopez and his girlfriend had been up for a few days because they had been smoking methamphetamine.

On Monday morning, the girlfriend and Lopez got a Lyft that took them from her grandmother’s home in Guadalupe to a Tempe U-Haul so she could rent a truck to attend her other boyfriend’s court hearing.

When her card got rejected, they got another Lyft, with the driver being 51-year-old John Lucas, to go back to her grandmother’s house, MCSO said.

When they got close, Lopez said he needed to stop by his cousin’s house, so another stop was added for Calle Bella V

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