BALTIMORE (WBFF) — Baltimore Police are searching for the suspect who they say assaulted a taxi cab driver while attempting to carjack the victim.
Officers were called to the 1500 block of Russell Street in south Baltimore on July 3 at approximately 10:45 p.m.
According to the Department, the 66-year-old taxi cab driver had called 911 after he reported his customer attempted to carjack him.
The driver told responding officers when he refused to comply the suspect began assaulting him with a chain and even smashed out his driver’s side window.
The suspect fled before officers arrived, but according to dispatch audio the crime was caught on surveillance.
Investigators have since released images of the believed suspect, and announced a $4,000 reward for information in the case.
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This is the latest case involving a person who fell victim to violence in the City while simply on the job.
Just last year City DOT worker Gregory Turnipseed died after investigators say a woman and a juvenile assaulted him after he asked the driver to move their vehicle.
The woman is now charged with second degree murder.
In 2024, cell phone video captured a security guard being choked out after workers at the Royal Farms said he confronted a customer about stealing.
In 2023 T-Mobile worker Fabian Sanchez-Gonzalez, 23, was shot and killed during an armed robbery at the store in Canton. A pair of crime spree suspects were later arrested in the case.
Also that year a pizza delivery driver was shot in the face while on the job, in northwest Baltimore.
In 2022, a woman was fatally shot while helping her friend deliver Door Dash during an armed robbery.
Two juveniles were arrested in the case.
In 2021 and 2020, MTA driver Frankye Duckett and MTA driver Marcus Parks were shot and killed in separate shootings, while on the job.
Arrests were made in both cases.
Anyone with information on this case involving the taxi cab driver is asked to contact Baltimore Police or Metro Crime Stoppers.
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