This is a sad story, as is every murder.
One of my brothers was a cabbie in Chicago, until a customer shot and
killed him.
Where To? wrote:
> Police: Florida cabbie kills unruly passenger
>
> WEST PALM BEACH, Florida (AP) -- A taxi driver killed a drunken
> passenger when the man refused to get out of his cab, police said.
>
> Robert Lee Smiley Jr. was charged with first-degree murder and was
> being held without bail Monday.
>
> The victim, Jimmie Morningstar, became heavily intoxicated at a bar
> and started a scuffle early Saturday, and a bouncer paid Smiley $10 to
> drive Morningstar home.
>
> "We thought we were doing the right thing," bar manager Dave Lynch
> said.
>
> Outside Morningstar's home, two witnesses told officers they heard
> Smiley yelling at Morningstar to get out of the cab, and one saw
> Smiley try to pull Morningstar out, then zap him with a stun gun, a
> police report said.
>
> Smiley, 56, yelled that he needed to make money and couldn't drive
> Morningstar around all night, one witness told police. According to
> the report, she said Smiley demanded: "Do you want me to kill you? Do
> you want to die?"
>
> Police said Smiley fired a gun twice into the pavement toward
> Morningstar's feet, then twice at Morningstar, and drove off.
>
> Morningstar, 43, died 30 minutes later at a hospital.
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