Suspect Charged In Shooting That Killed Cab Driver In The Bronx
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) -- A suspect was arrested and charged Wednesday in a shooting that left a ca driver dead in the Bronx.
Officers were called to East 189th Street and Beaumont Avenue, where they found 39-year-old Barry Mamadou still sitting in the driver's seat of his green Lincoln Town Car with a gunshot wound to the head, police said.
Mamadou had picked up the gunman just minutes earlier, police said. The man told the driver where he needed to go, and they agreed on a fare, authorities said. But when the passenger apparently changed his mind on where to get dropped off and wanted to go to a farther location, the cab driver asked for more money, and that's when the man opened fire and ran off, police said.
Mamadou's car then slammed into another car.
On Thursday, Nicholas Sanchez of the Bronx was charged with second-degree murder, aggravated manslaughter and criminal possession of a weapon, and first-degree attempted robbery.
The shooting that killed Mamadou was one of 13 reported shootings this past weekend that left at least eight people dead.