Taxi driver shot dead after picking up fake passengers
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A taxi operator was shot dead late Friday night after two men posing as passengers reportedly attacked him during a trip in Portmore, St Catherine.
The unidentified driver, who was operating a Toyota Probox motor car, was killed after he complied with the men’s request to stop along a section of Greater Portmore.
According to police reports, about 10:50 p.m., the cabbie was travelling along West Henderson Boulevard when he was hired by two men pretending to be passengers.
Upon reaching South East 4th Street 2 East, near Josephine Riley Park in Greater Portmore, the men asked him to pull over.
When he did, one of them reportedly exited the vehicle, pulled a firearm and shot the driver in the upper body.
The wounded man lost control of the taxi, which crashed into a nearby drain. He was later assisted to the Spanish Town Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
The Portmore Criminal Investigation Branch is probing the incident.
- Rasbert Turner
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