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Sikh taxi driver shot; robbery
suspected motive
WSN Network
SAN FRANCISCO: A
young Sikh taxi driver was shot at several times near the Golden
Gate Park Sunday morning. Twenty five years old Hariqbal Singh of South San
Francisco
was waiting to pick up a fare when two men approached him on the
driver's side of his car around 5 am on the corner of 24th Avenue
and Lincoln Way, San Francisco police Lt. Mike Caplan said.
One of the men
then pulled out what appeared to be a revolver from his front waist
pocket and showed it to Singh, Caplan said.
Singh tried to
speed off but one of the men fired at him "numerous times" as he
drove away, Caplan said. One shot traveled thorough the driver's
side seat and struck Singh in the back, he said.
He then drove
eastbound down Lincoln Way and
south on 26th Avenue before meeting with paramedics, who took him to San
Francisco General
Hospital.
One of Singh's
fellow drivers at Town Taxi went to visit him in the hospital
Sunday, Town Taxi dispatcher Fadiano Michels said. That driver said
Singh would be released by Sunday afternoon, Michels said.
Singh, who was
alone in his taxi at the time, was not robbed.
"It might have
been an attempted robbery, but he didn't stick around to find out,"
Caplan said.
The taxi's
passenger-side rear window was also broken.
"We don't know
if it was a passenger or if this was somebody who tried to rob him
or somebody walking on the street," Michels said. "The information
that I have right now is that he seems to be OK."
No arrests were
made yet. The first suspect was described as a 19-to 20-year-old
black man wearing a black hat, jacket and jeans. The other suspect
was a black man of an unknown age wearing all black clothing,
according to the police.
10 October, 2007
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