54-year-old
Orji-Ama Uro, a father of five from Nigeria living in Rosedale, New York
was savagely killed after a passenger stabbed him through the eye with an
umbrella, piercing his brain, during a dispute.
Uro had just
let a man and a woman out of his cab on Thomas S. Boyland St. in Brownsville,
Brooklyn when the pair began to argue with the driver about 5 p.m on
Thursday. The suspect, a man believed to be in his 20s, then jabbed the umbrella through Uro's right eye piercing
his brain before he hit the gas and crashed into a couple of parked cars
outside a Lott Ave. home.
He was rushed to Brookdale Hospital, where he
was pronounced dead a short time later.
The New York State Federation of Taxi Drivers is offering a $3,000 reward for information leading to the suspects’ arrest. The group 100 Blacks in Law Enforcement Who Care is offering another $2,000.
According
to the victim's family, Uro was a father of five who emigrated to the U.S. from
Nigeria 10 years ago in pursuit of the American dream, which for him was
opening his own shore store.
Chinedoum
Agwu, Uro's sister-in-law, said that his children, two sons and three
daughters between the ages of 16 and 23 arrived from Nigeria in December. She described her slain brother-in-law
as a very hardworking and responsible man who regularly attended services at a
Jehovah's Witness church.
She said Uro worked long hours as a cabbie so he
could support his family, but he was always nervous about the dangers that came
with the job. “He wanted to stop doing that and find something else,
because it’s a dangerous job,” Agwu said. He worried about being killed a lot.
And we worried, too.”
Too sad, may he rest in peace!
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