NEW YORK—The New York Police Department is looking for the attacker of a 27-year-old for-hire cab driver who was found fatally stabbed to death in his car.
Police say the car was parked on a Bronx roadway around 9 p.m. on March 2. The driver was inside, with stab wounds to his neck and chest.
She woke up frenziedly at 3 a.m. to call her husband and that’s when the police arrived at her door to tell her about Gandonou’s death. The couple has a 2-year-old son.
“My husband doesn’t deserve this,” she told News12 while carrying her son in her arms. “I don’t know how my life’s going to be without him.”
Alimi told her husband had no issues with anyone that would lead to his murder.
“This was a savage attack on a young man who was trying to earn a living, it takes an animal, someone with no type of remorse to brutally stab someone to death simply to rob him,” Fernando Mateo, a spokesperson with The New York State Federation of Taxi Drivers said in a statement, according to News12.
An Uber spokesman, Grant Klinzman, told the Times his death was “a horribly tragic incident.”
“This is a horribly tragic incident and our hearts go out to the grieving family. We stand ready to work with law enforcement to assist their investigation in any way possible,” he said.
The police on Sunday released a video of a person of interest in the case and offered a $2,500 reward.
“We are horrified by the death of our fellow for-hire vehicle driver and our thoughts go out to his loved ones. We must continue to do more to protect the safety of for-hire drivers,” said the Independent Drivers Guild, which represents 70,000 drivers in New York City, according to Business Insider.
“We call on anyone who may have witnessed the attack to contact the police so that the culprit may be brought to justice. The Independent Drivers Guild is offering a $3,000 reward for any witness who can provide information that leads to the arrest of the killer and helps police bring them to justice.”