Taxi driver found shot
Published January 15, 2007
LA MARQUE — Police are investigating the shooting of a taxi driver who they believe was killed by the last person she gave a ride to.
A passing motorist found Raneshia Lyshaun Kelly, 28, of Hitchcock, bleeding to death in her taxi along the northbound Interstate 45 feeder road near Century Boulevard about 3 a.m. Sunday.
The motorist had pulled over to check on the driver after she saw the maroon taxi van weave on the road, go across the grass median and hit the I-45 guardrail.
Kelly was dead by the time police and EMS workers arrived.
Bloodstains in the van indicate she was shot inside it, La Marque Police Chief Richard Price said. He said he believes she was shot near the accident site and thought the passenger then escaped.
No cash or belongings were missing from the taxi, Price said.
Earlier that night, dispatchers at the cab company sent Kelly to pick up a passenger at 18th Street and The Strand in Galveston to take him to an unknown La Marque location, police reports said.
Kelly worked for Jeff’s Cabs Co., a Galveston taxi service. Workers at the cab company declined to comment on the case.
Price said the only suspect is the man who called for the ride.
An autopsy is expected to be conducted today or Tuesday, Price said.
Anyone with any information is asked to call La Marque Police Investigators at 409-938-9241 or 409-938-9234 or La Marque Crime Stoppers at 409-938-TIPS.
A passing motorist found Raneshia Lyshaun Kelly, 28, of Hitchcock, bleeding to death in her taxi along the northbound Interstate 45 feeder road near Century Boulevard about 3 a.m. Sunday.
The motorist had pulled over to check on the driver after she saw the maroon taxi van weave on the road, go across the grass median and hit the I-45 guardrail.
Kelly was dead by the time police and EMS workers arrived.
Bloodstains in the van indicate she was shot inside it, La Marque Police Chief Richard Price said. He said he believes she was shot near the accident site and thought the passenger then escaped.
No cash or belongings were missing from the taxi, Price said.
Earlier that night, dispatchers at the cab company sent Kelly to pick up a passenger at 18th Street and The Strand in Galveston to take him to an unknown La Marque location, police reports said.
Kelly worked for Jeff’s Cabs Co., a Galveston taxi service. Workers at the cab company declined to comment on the case.
Price said the only suspect is the man who called for the ride.
An autopsy is expected to be conducted today or Tuesday, Price said.
Anyone with any information is asked to call La Marque Police Investigators at 409-938-9241 or 409-938-9234 or La Marque Crime Stoppers at 409-938-TIPS.
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