2 for-hire drivers assaulted day after attack on cabbie
A pair of for-hire drivers were assaulted Sunday morning in The Bronx and Brooklyn – one of them stabbed and the other punched by a passenger – just a day after another driver was shot seven times and nearly killed by a fare, police said.
A 44-year-old livery driver was stabbed in the lower body with a knife around 5 a.m. Sunday by a drunken passenger who was arguing with him over the fare at 1016 Kelly St. in Foxhurst, police said.
The driver was taken by ambulance to Lincoln Hospital and expected to survive.
Right around the same time in Brooklyn, a 57-year-old Uber driver was punched and scratched in the face by a woman who entered his vehicle at a McDonald’s parking lot at 2797 Linden Blvd., police said.
The woman demanded the driver take her to Drew and Stanley avenues, but he told her he already had a customer. She flew into a rage and smashed his radio with her fist before punching him in the face, cops said.
She then stole his iPhone 7 and fled on foot.
The driver told cops he recognized her as a regular customer but didn’t have enough information about her for cops to make an immediate arrest, police said. The driver was taken to Brookdale Hospital with minor injuries.
Both assaults came one day after livery driver Jeffrey Cisnero Camacho was shot seven times during a robbery in The Bronx.
Camacho, 26, picked up a passenger near the corner of Boston Road and Fish Avenue in Williamsbridge around 12:45 a.m. Saturday, cops said. When he reached the fare’s destination on Morrison Avenue near East 172nd Street in Soundview, the man pulled a gun out, cops said.
The crook then opened fire on Camacho, blasting him seven times before taking off with the driver’s wallet and $23 in cash, authorities said.
Camacho was taken to Jacobi Medical Center in critical but stable condition.