Cabbie gunned down at taxi stand in Linstead
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The Linstead police in St Catherine are searching for a gunman who fatally shot a taxi operator along Zepherton main road on Thursday morning.
He has been identified as 48-year-old Roger Arnold, otherwise called 'Kevin', of Golden Grove district in St Ann.
Reports are that about 6:30 a.m., Arnold was seated inside his motor car awaiting passengers at an area commonly called 'Ochi Bus Stop' along the roadway when a Nissan AD Wagon carrying several men drove up.
A man reportedly exited the vehicle, pointed a gun at Arnold, and repeatedly shot him in the torso.
He was assisted to the Linstead Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
Reports are that he may have been targeted by his attackers.
The Linstead Criminal Investigation Branch is probing the matter.
- Rasbert Turner
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