10-10-2011 * San Antonio Taxi Driver found DEAD!
SAN ANTONIO - A man was shot inside of his taxi cab on the city's East Side.

It happened around 4:15 Monday morning near FM 78 and Sunrise Pass.

When Police arrived on the scene they found the man dead in his cab.
The driver has not been identified but police say he was in his 40's.

"Here's a guy here trying to make a living and he was murdered while trying to do that, " said Police Chief William McManus.

The news of the murder quickly traveled to other taxi drivers. News 4 WOAI caught up with several of them at the local airport.
"We might be on watch because you never know what's going to happen, " replied driver Jorge Carrion.

Carrion said he's been driving a cab for 32 years and will not work nights. Another driver, Faris Rafiti will also only work during the day. Both men try to keep their business at the airport because they say it's safer. Some taxi cab drivers don't have that option.

"Some people they can not afford it because it's to tough to make that's why they go into the city to make money, " replied driver Mohammad Ghanem.

The drivers we spoke with did not know the murdered taxi driver, but say they are still deeply saddened by the news.

Police are looking at surveillance video taken from a nearby Exxon station because they believe both the driver and passenger may have stopped there. Investigators will also search through surveillance video from inside the taxi cab.

So far police have not released a motive, or the name of a suspect.