{"id":53282,"date":"2025-11-26T19:24:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-26T19:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/53282\/"},"modified":"2025-11-26T19:24:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T19:24:08","slug":"nyc-cab-livery-driver-stabbed-repeatedly-and-left-for-dead-behind-wheel-of-car-sources","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/53282\/","title":{"rendered":"NYC cab livery driver stabbed repeatedly and left for dead behind wheel of car: sources"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Big Apple livery cab driver was stabbed repeatedly and left for dead behind the wheel of his vehicle on a Bronx street early Wednesday morning, police and law enforcement sources said.<\/p>\n<p>The victim, identified as Osei Kusi, 39, by a taxi advocacy group, was critically injured after being knifed in the back and lower abdomen around 2:30 a.m. near Randall Avenue and White Plains Road, according to cops.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities found the driver unconscious and unresponsive inside a Toyota SUV with TLC plates after a pedestrian initially stumbled on the bloody scene, police and sources said.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:0.46025641;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"37774078\" width=\"272\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/copy-photo-osei-kusi-taxi-116241236.jpg\" alt=\"Osei Kusi\" class=\"wp-image-37774078\"  \/>The victim was identified as Osei Kusi by a taxi advocacy group.  Obtained by the NYPost<\/p>\n<p>He was taken to Jacobi Hospital in critical condition, but has since been upgraded to stable, the NYPD said.<\/p>\n<p>No arrests have been made as the New York State Federation of Taxi Drivers (NYSFTD) is offering a $5,000 reward to information leading to the capture of an attacker.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis was a vicious attack on a hardworking family man.\u201d said Steven Rivera, President of NYSFTD. \u201cWe need the public\u2019s help to catch whoever did this.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>There was no immediate description of the suspect or a motive from the NYPD.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.49707602;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"37774083\" width=\"883\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/33-police-responded-call-reported-116233290.jpg\" alt=\"The stabbing took place early Wednesday morning. \" class=\"wp-image-37774083\"  \/>The stabbing took place early Wednesday morning.  Kyle Mazza\/Shutterstock<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis was an attempted murder and a danger to every New Yorker. Someone out there knows something and must come forward,\u201d said NYSFTD spokesperson Fernando Mateo. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Big Apple livery cab driver was stabbed repeatedly and left for dead behind the wheel of his&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":53283,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[29417,57,9,24,63,2442,134,136,135,129,58],"class_list":{"0":"post-53282","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-staten-island","8":"tag-livery-cabs","9":"tag-metro","10":"tag-new-york","11":"tag-new-york-city","12":"tag-nyc","13":"tag-stabbings","14":"tag-staten-island","15":"tag-staten-island-headlines","16":"tag-staten-island-news","17":"tag-the-bronx","18":"tag-us-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53282","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=53282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53282\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}