{"id":53145,"date":"2025-11-26T17:25:06","date_gmt":"2025-11-26T17:25:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/53145\/"},"modified":"2025-11-26T17:25:06","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T17:25:06","slug":"bronx-car-service-driver-found-critically-hurt-stabbed-behind-wheel-of-iding-suv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/53145\/","title":{"rendered":"Bronx car service driver found critically hurt stabbed behind wheel of iding SUV"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A livery cab driver was found unconscious with multiple stab wounds behind the wheel of his idling SUV early Wednesday, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/2025\/10\/01\/shootings-hit-record-low-victims-get-younger\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">police<\/a> said.<\/p>\n<p>As victim Osei Kusi recovers in the hospital, his fellow taxi drivers are offering a $5,000 reward for the arrest of the stabber.<\/p>\n<p>Kusi, 39, was found by a passerby unconscous and soaked in blood inside his Toyota SUV, which still had its motor running, in the middle of the street in Throgs Neck about 2:30 a.m., cops said.<\/p>\n<p>Medics rushed him from the scene near Randall Ave. and White Plains Road to Jacobi Medical Center in critical condition. His condition improved to stable after undergoing emergency surgery to treat stab wounds to his back and stomach, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis was a vicious attack on a hardworking family man,\u201d said Steven Rivera, President of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nysftd.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">New York State Federation of Taxi Drivers.<\/a> \u201cWe need the public\u2019s help to catch whoever did this.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kusi works for ABX Premium, a car service located on Southern Blvd. in East Tremont, according to city records.<\/p>\n<p>Cops were working on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/2022\/12\/26\/elite-nypd-squad-uses-surveillance-video-to-track-and-catch-criminals-we-take-a-lot-of-pride-in-our-work\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">downloading video from a camera found inside the cab<\/a> to see if they can get an image of Kusi\u2019s attacker, said Fernando Mateo, a spokesman for the New York State Federation of Taxi Drivers, who called the stabber a \u201cdanger to every New Yorker.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSomeone out there knows something and must come forward,\u201d Mateo said as his organization offered the reward.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information is asked to call <a href=\"https:\/\/crimestoppers.nypdonline.org\/?AspxAutoDetectCookieSupport=1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Crime Stoppers<\/a> at (800) 577-TIPS. All calls will be kept confidential. They can also call the Federation of Taxi Drivers at (718) 559-0216.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A livery cab driver was found unconscious with multiple stab wounds behind the wheel of his idling SUV&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":53146,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,262,263,266,85,267,9,24,264,12,63,261,265,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-53145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-bronx","tag-city","tag-county","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-latest-headlines","tag-local-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-county","tag-news","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-crime","tag-sub-county-region","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53145\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}