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.
