I WAS MUGGED AND ROBBED. Oct. 13, 2013. Not a good day at all for me. I was called to a used car lot and arrived to find a black lady maybe 20 waiting for a ride. I headed to north Houston with her and arrived at a shopping center and stopped to ask for my fair . Blam she knocked me in the head with something then rooted $91 from my pocket, I jumped out and ran after her. I managed to grab her from behind, then she swung and hit me on the (L) side of the head and I fell. Cops and ambulance to ER. I got to be carefull who I pick up.

NYC Taxi driver shot 3 times for $8.00

NYC Taxi driver shot 3 times for $8.00

http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2013/01/taxi-shooting-suspect-caught-on-camera/

Taxi robbers caught........

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http://www.nbc29.com/story/23381961/taxi-robbery-suspects-arrested-in-buckingham

2 Taxi Drivers Robbed at Gunpoint! Miami

09-16-2013

MIAMI (WSVN) -- Police are searching for armed robbers who held up cab drivers in two separate incidents.
The first incident happened just after 9:30 p.m. Sunday in the area of 79th Street and Northwest Sixth Avenue. Investigators said the cab driver was having engine trouble and exited off Interstate 95 on to 79th Street. "My car broke down, I call the towing. I wait for the towing to come, and I saw two guys come with a gun on me," said Marques Simon.
Simon said as he waited for the tow truck to come, two men approached him and robbed him of his wallet. "I'm real scared because they have a gun, you know," he said.
The crooks also tried to steal his taxi cab. "They said, 'Give me that key!' and I said, 'That key is inside the car.' They don't know that the car doesn't move," said Simon.
The crooks realized the cab was broken down and fled on foot.
Simon said the robbers stole $60 from him and went to a nearby Chevron gas station for help.
The second robbery took place blocks away, at 72nd Street and Northwest Second Avenue. The taxi cab driver responded to a call from dispatch. He picked up two men and soon felt a gun on his shoulder. "Two teenagers, one 19, one is 22," said Mohammad Younus. "They came in a car and said they want to go to 61st Street and after that I feel a gun on my shoulder and said, 'Give us money and get out the car.'"
The crooks then robbed him of $275 and stole his cab. "I give them money and get out the car," said Younus.
Younus said the men peeled off and almost took down a pole trying to get away. "They hit the pole because they're nervous, and they're speeding," he said.
Younus said he is just happy he made it safely through the ordeal. "Thank God I'm still alive. That's good for me," he said with relief. "I don't care about money."
Police are now trying to determine if the robberies are related.
Luckily, no one was injured.
If you have any information on these armed robberies, call Miami-Dade Crime Stoppers at 305-471-TIPS. Remember, you can always remain anonymous, and you may be eligible for a reward.


Read more: http://www.wsvn.com/news/articles/local/21011702819334/2-cab-drivers-robbed-at-gunpoint-in-miami/#ixzz2fA4RbkOm

Houston Taxi Drivers killers caught!

Couple kills 2 taxi drivers & caught on video...........

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uBolGX1UXRA

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2 Cabbies Killed in 2 days

Two Houston Taxi Drivers were both killed robbed after being called to the same Chevon Station in a west Houston neighborhood on 2 consecutive days.

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Texarkana Taxi Robberies

Taxis robbed!

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Taxi Robbery - Texas

Taxi Robbery - Texas

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Taxi Driver Robbed - Texas

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Three People run after taxi ride:

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Teen Charged After Texas Cab Driver Killed For $19

SAN ANTONIO (October 16, 2011)—Derrick Wayne Hunt, Jr., 18, was jailed Sunday, charged with capital murder in the death of a cab driver who was killed during a $19 robbery.
Hunt was charged Friday after he was arrested earlier in the day.
His bond is set at more than $1.5 million.
Witnesses say Hunt called for the cab using a fake name Monday with the intention of getting a ride without paying the fare.
Police later found the body of the cab driver, John Dexter, 49, alongside a road.
Hunt told reporters he didn't kill Dexter.

http://www.kwtx.com/home/headlines/131949298.html

Killer gets life sentence!

http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/local_news/article/Man-handed-life-term-in-cabby-s-death-3965562.php

2011 * El Paso Taxi Driver Shot & Robbed by Ft. Bliss Soldiers

http://www.kfoxtv.com/news/news/taxi-driver-robbed-stabbed/nDS8p/

By Ric Dupont

EL PASO, Texas —

Three Fort Bliss soldiers are accused of robbing a taxi driver and then stabbing him at least five times, base officials said. The stabbing happened on post.The taxi driver's family told KFOX14 that he's in William Beaumont Army Medical Center, and they expect him to leave the hospital tomorrow.
The driver worked as an independent contractor for Sun City Cabs. Sun City has an exclusive contract with Fort Bliss for the last five years.
Fort Bliss officials told KFOX14 it's horrified and disgusted by what happened. Fort Bliss said the suspects were new Fort Bliss soldiers.
Fort Bliss officials said those soldiers don't represent the values of the U.S. Army or the nation.
At this point, the family doesn't want the driver or to be identified, but the driver’s son said his dad is not the type of man to let something happened to him.
“He’s angry about the soldiers,” the victim’s son said. “I mean they’re our nation’s heroes but the military is picking up a bunch of kids and supposed to check every one of them.” A manager at Sun City Cabs said that this is the first act of violence against any Sun City Cab driver since the company opened in 1980.

February 2013 *NY Taxi Driver Shot & Killed

http://www.buffalonews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20130306/CITYANDREGION/130309442/1010

When Mazen M. Abdallah went missing after picking up a customer Wednesday morning, other cabbies who regularly work the Buffalo airport set out looking for him in the Bailey-Kensington neighborhood.
Just before 7 a.m., one of them found his cab. The 55-year-old Palestinian native was dead in the back seat with a bullet in his head.
Homicide detectives who answered the call found the 700 block of Norfolk Avenue already crowded with more than 20 cabbies who openly wept and consoled each other over the death of Abdallah, who was loved by his co-workers and the customers he drove.
“Mazen was a person who talked to everybody and they were always happy when they had spoken with him. He had customers who would request him as their cab driver,” said taxi driver Lukhvin “Lucky” Singh.
Abdallah had started his shift at about 4 a.m. and was delivering his first fare of the day to Bailey-Kensington when he stopped answering the dispatcher’s two-way radio calls, co-workers said.
“Everybody was looking for him in the early morning. It was so sad. I’m so upset. Everybody is,” cab driver Alex Agha said. “Mazen was such a nice guy.”
Police believe the killer or killers shot and robbed him.
Then they placed Abdallah in the back seat of the white 2006 Lincoln Town Car, part of Airport Taxi’s fleet, and taken to Norfolk Avenue, where the cab was parked just south of Kensington Avenue.
Buffalo Chief of Detectives Dennis J. Richards, at a news conference Wednesday in Niagara Square, said investigators are trying to piece together Abdallah’s whereabouts from 5 a.m. to the time his cab was found on Norfolk.
The identification number on the exterior of the cab was “57,” Richards said, hoping that information might stir a recollection from someone in the community. Anyone with information, the chief said, was asked to call or text the department’s confidential TIPCALL Line, 847-2255.
“It looks like it was robbery,” Richards said, and police believe it was random.
The tears and anxiety of Abdallah’s fellow cab drivers continued throughout Wednesday as they gathered in the break room of their dispatch building at Buffalo Niagara International Airport in Cheektowaga to watch television news updates.
One of their own was gone, and they once again were confronted with the fact that driving a cab is hazardous work.
“Two years ago, I was driving a customer down to Jamestown and after I got off the Thruway, the customer put a shoelace around my neck and started choking me,” said Ibrahim Amin. “I crashed and got into a fight with the guy and held him for the police. He’s in prison until 2018 and I have a lifetime order of protection against him.”
Eleven years ago, just before Abdallah joined Airport Taxi, he owned a deli on Walden Avenue, where he was shot in the right leg during a stick-up involving three robbers.
One of the robbers accidentally shot himself in the foot and police were able to follow bloody footprints to a Sweet Avenue home where the men were arrested. The man who shot Abdallah was sentenced to 25 years to life in prison.
“He had a brush with death back then. He talked about it with me,” a fellow cab driver said, shaking his head over the violence his friend suffered then and now.
A woman in the Bailey-Kensington neighborhood told The Buffalo News she considered herself fortunate to be alive after having what she believes was a close encounter with those responsible for killing Abdallah.
“I got here around 5:30 a.m., and two men were walking away from the cab, headed up the street, as I parked my car directly in front of the taxi,” the woman said, requesting that her name be withheld.
She said she did not hear gunfire and that bolstered the belief that Abdallah was killed elsewhere and then driven to Norfolk.
“I spoke with the cab dispatcher who found him. He and the other cab drivers had all been out looking for him. It was a horrible thing. I can’t get this out of my head. Those two guys could have stopped and killed me,” she said.
Tania Wimes said she was shocked that the shooters abandoned the cab in front of her family’s house. “This is crazy. This type of stuff usually doesn’t happen in our neighborhood,” Wimes said.
The 700 block of Norfolk is filled with modest, well-kept homes, where the most exciting thing in the early morning is usually children waiting to board buses for school. On Wednesday, with all of the emergency vehicles and many cabs filling the street, schoolchildren had to be picked up on a nearby street.
Other Norfolk neighbors wanted Abdallah’s family to know that they were praying for them. “If you want to rob him, just rob him, don’t kill him. This is pointless,” a neighbor said.
Last Dec. 11, a dozen blocks away on Minnesota Avenue, a woman cab driver and her boyfriend were killed as they sat in her cab in front of their home. Someone approached the vehicle in the early-morning hours and riddled it with bullets. The case remains unsolved and police believe the couple had been targeted.
Murders of cab drivers in metro Buffalo are infrequent, though they often are targeted for robberies because crooks know they have cash. Police say they pay special attention to cab drivers and fast food delivery workers for exactly that reason.
Agha, a close friend of Abdallah, said that on Tuesday night they were watching a soccer game on the television in the cab company’s break room.
“I was rooting for my team from Madrid and they were losing. I was so upset and Mazen said to me, ‘Alex, there’s a half hour left. Take it easy. We’re going to win.’ He came back later and asked who won and I said our team. He said, ‘Alex, I’m happy for you. Thank God.’ We joked for a little while and then he left early. Then today, he is dead. Life is too short,” Agha said.
Stories like that demonstrated how close-knit the cab driver community is.
Not only were cabbies in large numbers on Norfolk Avenue as detectives processed the crime scene, but dozens of them showed up at Abdallah’s West Side home to comfort his brothers and other relatives.
“We came here 35 years ago from Palestine,” one of Abdallah’s brothers said of the family’s quest to make a better life in the United States.
Another brother said, “We appreciate the concerns and prayers of others.”
An American citizen, Abdallah was not married and did not have children, according to co-workers.
A service is set for 1:30 p.m. today in the Masjid An-Noor mosque on Heim Road in Getzville.
Offering a final word on Abdallah at Airport Taxi’s dispatch center was the company’s owner:
“He worked for me 11 years and he was a beautiful man,” Gianfranco Onorati said.

email: lmichel@buffnews.com


Georgia Taxi Driver Killed
Jan. 25, 2013

http://www.cbsatlanta.com/story/20703996/taxi-driver-shot-killed-in-clayton-county-condo-complex

By Tom Regan

CLAYTON COUNTY, Ga. —

Clayton County police have arrested one man and are searching for a second suspect in the fatal shooting of a taxi driver.

The victim, 44-year-old Rosendo Casarrubias, was found shot dead in his cab the morning of Jan. 25 in a Riverdale neighborhood.

Police say 22-year-old Desmond Nixon, of Clayton County, has been charged in the murder. A warrant has also been taken out on Julius Thomas, who is the target of a police search.

Investigators said cellphone calls and other evidence link the two men to the murder. According to police, Nixon called the victim to reserve a cab ride, and later shot the driver during an attempted robbery.

"I think the robbery went bad because Mr. Cassarubia was actually arming himself. Desmond Nixon thought the cab driver was armed," said Clayton County Police Capt. Richard Gandee.

Police are asking for the public's help in locating the murder weapon which they describe as a .40 caliber Glock.

Channel 2's Tom Regan spoke to friends of the victim who expressed relief that police had break in the case.