Crime & Safety
Slain Cab Driver Is Identified, Shooter Remains At Large: Police
New Rochelle police said that the taxi driver had just parked his cab at the end of his shift when he was fatally shot.
NEW ROCHELLE, NY — New Rochelle police have released the identity of the 62-year-old taxi driver who was shot to death on Thursday morning.
Andres Valenzuela was pronounced dead shortly after officers on patrol found the wounded New Rochelle man in a parking lot on Main Street in the city just before 3 a.m.
Valenzuela was finishing his shift as a taxi driver and was parking his cab when he was shot, police said in a statement released on Thursday. No arrests have been announced in connection with the ongoing homicide investigation.
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Anyone with any information that may be of assistance to investigators is being asked to call the New Rochelle Police Department’s main line: 914-654-2300.
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