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Tampa cabbie killed

A cab driver was killed in Tampa early Monday morning in Tampa. He was robbed and shot according to police. He picked them up in a crime ridden area at night. He did not deserve this. In 18 years of driving cab, I never pick up in bad parts of town and this is why. Being a cab driver, you have no life insurance or medical insurance. His family, now, has nothing. Sad. Very sad.

Below is from a news source:

Police are trying to identify two men who are believed to have shot and killed a taxi cab driver in Tampa's Sulphur Springs neighborhood. 

A neighbor found 56-year-old John Dooley dead in his taxi, outside an abandoned home on Sunday night. Police won't say right now whether this was an attempted robbery or something else.

Officers say a neighbor was driving near N. 18th Street and Humphrey Street when he saw the taxi parked along the side of a house the neighbor knew was vacant.

That neighbor got concerned and got out of his own car to walk up and talk to the driver. But as he got close, he could tell the driver was dead. The neighbor called the police.

Investigators arrived and determined Dooley had been shot. Detectives and patrol officers swept the Sulphur Springs neighborhood, just southwest of Busch Gardens, asking people what they may have seen or heard.

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  1. I rode with John off and on for over 15 years.He was a audiophile of the first order and a sympathetic ear even after a lengthy lapse in acquaintance.He was a constant.He will be missed and remembered fondly.789-8119.

    Jeff Hillard

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