A Nigerian cab driver, Orji-Ama Uro, was gruesomely murdered with an umbrella in New York.
Uro was described as a hardworking father-of-five who emigrated from Nigeria for his kids.
Uro is originally from Ebonyi State, in Afikpo South.
“He came to get a better life. He didn’t go to university and he wanted to do everything in his power for his kids to go to school,” said Orji-Ama Uro’s sister-in-law, Chinedum Agwu, 30, who said the cabbie was always “cautious.”
He moved to here 10 years ago, she said.
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“I just hope they’ll be able to find who did this. How do his kids go on?”
His wife lives in Nigeria, and still does not know he is dead, said his brother, Agwu A. Agwu, 35.
“It’s still a shock to me. He’s a responsible family man,” he said.
Uro, 54, was killed yesterday when a passenger stabbed him in the eye with the tip of an umbrella. A man and woman were spotted fleeing from the scene.
The motive for the killing was initially thought to be robbery — but investigators found a couple hundred dollars in his pocket, and he still had his cell phone, police sources today said.
After getting gored, the cabby continued to drive for about a block before hitting two parked minivans on Thomas S Boyland Street in Brownsville at about 5 p.m., authorities said.
After the crook and a pal fled, the driver was taken to Brookdale Hospital in critical condition and later died.
Cops are looking for a black male and female, in their mid-20s, who were in the driver’s 2000 Mercury sedan. The cab had New Jersey plates and was operated by Freedom Car Service, police said.
Grainy video obtained by The Post from a nearby bodega shows the couple getting out of the car and walking calmly away, as the cab keeps heading slowly down the street and turns right onto Lott Avenue.
The mortally wounded driver crashed across the street from a school where kids were playing in the yard.
“I was cooking in kitchen and I heard a loud bang, so I ran to my window. I saw the cabdriver bleeding like crazy. His face was full of blood,” said Lena Taylor, 51, who lives on the street.
“I called 911 and they arrived fast and cut him out of the car. He already looked dead.”
Police were not certain of the nature of the dispute, but believe the driver was robbed, said cab-union boss Fernando Mateo.
“It was a terrible way for a man to die,” Mateo said.
The driver had no valid identification when he was found.
There is a $5,000 for information leading to an arrest.
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This is very evil for someone to do...we hope that those scumbags will be apprehended.
May his soul rest in peace.
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