Houston Taxi Driver Shot!
Police are searching for four men suspected in a shooting that left a taxi driver critically wounded outside an apartment complex in southwest Houston early this morning.
The shooting happened at the complex at 12600 Dunlap about 12:05 a.m. Friday, according to the Houston Police Department.
Police said the man, whose name has not been released, was rushed to Ben Taub General Hospital. He had been shot more than once. No other injuries were reported.
Police said passersby found the man lying gunshot in the complex parking lot. Investigators said the man, who is believed to be cab driver, told the Good Samaritans he had picked up four men in his minivan taxi at the bus station at 2121 Main Street. At some point, the men shot and robbed him and his van was stolen.
The men left after the gunfire. One of the men drove away in the minivan. He is described only as thin and in his mid 20s. No descriptions of the other men were available.
The minivan is white and has red letters and numbers on it as well as tinted back windows. Police did not release the van’s license plate number.
Anyone with information about the case is urged to contact the HPD Homicide Division at 713-308-3600 or Crime Stoppers at 713-222-TIPS.
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.