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Posted by ntrainride on Wed Aug 25 10:14:52 2010, in response to Re: Terrorist Stabbed in Cab, posted by JayZeeBMT on Wed Aug 25 09:59:18 2010. And this is what blind hatred against Brazilian immigrants by young black males leads to, lately. Or would you say that this cab driver stabbing was "better" because none of the males involved mentioned his background?UPDATE: Stabbed Greenwich Taxi driver in fair condition A Greenwich Taxi driver who was stabbed during a robbery in Mount Vernon, N.Y., Thursday night after he dropped off three teenagers in the city was recovering from his injuries Friday in a New York hospital, police said. The driver, Daniel Olimpio, 52, of Stamford, was taken to Jacobi Medical Center in the Bronx, N.Y., after he was stabbed in the chest, stomach and arms as three young black males were getting out of his cab around 7 p.m., police said. Olimpio was listed in fair condition Friday afternoon after having been critical, according to a hospital spokeswoman and police. After Olimpio arrived in Mount Vernon, one of the suspects began to stab him, while another held a gun, said Detective Sgt. Robert Scott of the Mount Vernon Police Department. While police assume robbery was the motive, it is not clear whether anything was taken. Scott said police are still investigating. Mount Vernon police have already been probing a string of taxi cab robberies in the city since July. There have been at least three similar incidents, with suspects getting rides from nearby train stations into Mount Vernon, where they rob victims at gunpoint, Scott said. "We're working on that pretty aggressively and actively," he said. Greenwich police said a number of witnesses remember the suspects attempting to hail a cab in Greenwich. Lt. Richard Cochran, of the Greenwich Police Department, said the three suspects exited a train at the downtown Greenwich train station Thursday evening and approached numerous cab drivers trying to find the cheapest rate to make it to Mount Vernon, N.Y. "One driver agreed to take them to Mount Vernon, at which point he was later found stabbed and in serious critical condition," Cochran said. Greenwich police assisted in the investigation Thursday night, attempting to locate video footage of the men leaving the train station. Police have not been able to locate any video of the suspects so far. According to Scott, the suspects are described as being approximately 18 years old and about 5-foot-11. One was wearing a gray shirt and blue jeans, while another was dressed in blue jeans, a white shirt with a red stripe on one of the sleeves and a Yankees hat. There was no description of the clothing the third suspect was wearing. Juliano Abadia, the Greenwich Taxi night dispatcher who was on duty Thursday, said that around 7:20 p.m. he got a call from a woman in Mount Vernon who had found Olimpio after the stabbing, and had called the police and an ambulance, as well as the phone number on the taxi. Abadia said he went straight to the hospital, where Olimpio was undergoing surgery. Olimpio is an independent contractor who leases the license plates from the company, and has been driving as a franchisee for close to 10 years. No phone number is listed for the cab driver's Stamford address. No one answered the door at his Myano Lane home Friday afternoon. Buddy Boskello, the owner of Greenwich Taxi, said Olimpio, who has two young children and made his own hours, was cooperative. "He was someone we'd want as an independent contractor representing the company," Boskello said. "I was very anxious to make sure he was OK." Boskello, a Pemberwick resident who has been with the company for 40 years, said this was the first robbery of a Greenwich Taxi driver since the 1970s. Abadia said the cab drivers had not been aware of the previous robberies in Mount Vernon, which isn't a common destination for Greenwich Taxi drivers. After one of the drivers the suspects were trying to negotiate with told them they had to take the first car in line at the station, Abadia said he advised Olimpio to get the $54 fare up front. "Everybody's scared," said Abadia, who, like Olimpio, is a native of Brazil. "We just couldn't believe that would have happened to someone like him." Scott said police are warning taxi drivers in the area to be cautious, especially if there are several young men at one time looking for a ride. |
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