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IN MEMORIAM
In respectful memory of taxicab and livery drivers throughout the world who lost their lives in service to the public.
All of the following died as a consequence of robbery or assault.
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Total identified as of December 5, 2003
822
The list is significantly understated.
Hundreds of additional taxicab driver homicides are known to have occurred in the US, but identifying information is not available, so the drivers' names do not appear on this list. For large areas of the world, almost no information is available, including Central and South America, most of Asia and Africa, and the former Soviet states.
This list is being built real-time from modest research sources - a few news search engines on the Internet. The ongoing update is weighted towards the United States and Canada, simply as a consequence of the greater presence of North American media on the Internet.
The primary researchers are:
- Charles Rathbone, who used newspaper sources to create a database of cab drivers murdered prior to 1995, mostly in the United States.
- Terry Smythe, who used Internet news sources to compile a list of 319 cab drivers murdered worldwide from January 1998 to August 2003, a rate of 1.09 per week. In the US, 211 homicides were identified during the period, roughly one every ten days.
- Norman Beattie, who used newspapers and government records to prepare a comprehensive review of Canadian cab driver homicides dating back to 1919.
To advise of corrections or omissions, or to link up with an emerging support group for close family and friends of murdered cab drivers, please contact Charles Rathbone.
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View the list arranged by date of assault; or by country and state or province; or arrange it alphabetically by driver's name.
View the US cases only arranged by state and city, or the Canadian cases only arranged by province and city.
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Canadian cases only
Lucie Turmel, 05/17/90, Banff, Alberta
Narine Ronald Bassit, 05/25/84, Calgary, Alberta
Gurmeet Singh Waraich, 08/17/82, Calgary, Alberta
Glenda Ferster, 02/23/77, Calgary, Alberta
Ahmad Sabbagh, 10/02/76, Calgary, Alberta
Ernest Midwinter, 08/16/30, Calgary, Alberta
Fernie (Frank Stewart) Bourne, 10/30/28, Calgary, Alberta
Trevor O'Dell, 04/10/95, Edmonton, Alberta
Ivan Soproniuk, 11/06/94, Edmonton, Alberta
Gerald Edward Fischer, 12/05/91, Edmonton, Alberta
Manjit Singh Dhaliwal, 11/03/88, Edmonton, Alberta
Jim Morris, 09/20/85, Edmonton, Alberta
Charmayne Fay Manke, 04/14/84, Edmonton, Alberta
Frederick Horyn, 11/22/81, Edmonton, Alberta
Gerdina (Jeri) Kruidbos, 12/03/81, Edmonton, Alberta
Robert Payne Seward, 06/28/81, Edmonton, Alberta
Ken Spoonheim, 07/29/84, Medicine Hat, Alberta
James Reed, 05/02/98, Wetaskiwin, Alberta
James William Johnson, 01/24/67, Ashcroft, British Columbia
Eugene Scott Prince, 01/23/67, Fort St. James, British Columbia
Roche Charles (Rocky) Frie, 11/12/87, Kelowna, British Columbia
William James (Jim) Burton, 05/21/91, Maple Ridge, British Columbia
Gregory Paul Belliveau, 02/28/79, Port Coquitlam, British Columbia
Daniel Bryce, 10/14/84, Prince George, British Columbia
Kenneth Scott, 10/12/88, Sidney, British Columbia
Alan William Martin-Macdonald, 03/04/00, Surrey, British Columbia
Mehdi Nasnain Naqvi, 03/18/99, Vancouver, British Columbia
David Malloy, 03/17/96, Vancouver, British Columbia
John McKechnie, 05/19/92, Vancouver, British Columbia
Frank Gold, 08/15/84, Vancouver, British Columbia
Thomas Man Tang, 03/31/78, Vancouver, British Columbia
Muk-Chee Tam, 04/14/73, Vancouver, British Columbia
Reginald Claude Price, 10/01/45, Vancouver, British Columbia
Philip Oscar Davis, 10/03/42, Vancouver, British Columbia
Gerald King Mulholland, 11/10/70, Victoria, British Columbia
John Blair Creagh, 04/25/42, Victoria, British Columbia
Dorion Simon, 03/31/94, Flin Flon, Manitoba
Pritam Deol, 07/18/01, Winnipeg, Manitoba
Paramjit Singh, 09/27/89, Winnipeg, Manitoba
Lawrence Peter Bembin, 01/09/87, Winnipeg, Manitoba
Gurnam Singh Dhaliwal, 04/05/86, Winnipeg, Manitoba
John Ivan McCaw, 01/26/80, Winnipeg, Manitoba
Hugh J. Scott, 01/20/48, Winnipeg, Manitoba
Johann Johnson, 03/31/46, Winnipeg, Manitoba
Arthur Badger, 09/28/45, Winnipeg, Manitoba
Douglas Allen MacIsaac, 11/15/96, Fredericton, New Brunswick
Norman Phillip Burgoyne, 01/07/49, Fredericton, New Brunswick
William Alexander Alward, 02/15/70, St. John, New Brunswick
William Puddington, 10/07/49, St. John, New Brunswick
Bill Crawley, 09/17/95, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia
Keith Edward McCallum, 12/23/75, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia
Nicholas Marthos, 09/22/30, Glace Bay, Nova Scotia
Ron Henderson, 04/05/86, Halifax, Nova Scotia
Robert LeBlanc, 01/02/98, Pictou, Nova Scotia
Everett Hugh MacLean, 09/09/71, Sydney, Nova Scotia
Gary Arthur Newman, 06/29/01, Barrie, Ontario
Fred Shapcott, 10/01/93, Barrie, Ontario
Baljindar Singh Rai, 01/01/00, Brampton, Ontario
Albert Richer, 04/12/47, Geraldton, Ontario
Johnson Borden Bleich, 11/21/74, Gravenhurst, Ontario
Gerald Burke, 12/05/69, Hamilton, Ontario
Tony Codispodi, 06/01/54, Hamilton, Ontario
Francis Grosso, 06/17/59, Huntsville, Ontario
Bruce Spiers, 06/17/59, Huntsville, Ontario
Kin Sing Kwong, 07/03/92, Iroquois Falls, Ontario
Elmer Battler, 07/13/45, Kitchener, Ontario
Joseph Pasztor, 01/08/85, London, Ontario
Greg McCart, 10/19/79, London, Ontario
Ivan Lawrence Wheeler, 02/18/77, London, Ontario
Timothy Ross Alward, 01/02/74, London, Ontario
Leonard Hurd, 08/26/52, Maxville, Ontario
Wayne Roshorn, 01/11/77, Nepean, Ontario
Malek Moussa, 02/21/93, Ottawa, Ontario
Alireza Ebrahimian, 11/25/87, Ottawa, Ontario
Jacques Labrossiere, 12/12/85, Ottawa, Ontario
W. James Edwards, 03/14/48, Pembroke, Ontario
Arthur Seelinger, 01/23/45, Pembroke, Ontario
Donald Lanthier, 06/30/78, Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario
Richard Turkiewicz, 01/12/76, Scarborough, Ontario
Arthur Gough, 12/22/49, St. Catharines, Ontario
Gerald Stephen De Viller, 02/09/68, St. Thomas, Ontario
Joel Mutungu Ngugi, 10/06/95, Thunder Bay, Ontario
Mohammadullah Saighani, 12/30/99, Toronto, Ontario
Robert Nancoo, 02/25/93, Toronto, Ontario
Anthony Ekunah, 07/01/91, Toronto, Ontario
Norman Washington Ennis, 12/10/91, Toronto, Ontario
Leo Henningham, 07/24/90, Toronto, Ontario
Wolsey Fraser, 07/20/88, Toronto, Ontario
Michael March, 09/25/88, Toronto, Ontario
Baljeet Singh, 10/06/88, Toronto, Ontario
Philip Davidson, 08/26/83, Toronto, Ontario
Peter Gamoulakos, 11/14/81, Toronto, Ontario
Robert Pearson, 04/09/78, Toronto, Ontario
Gordon Stoddart, 03/16/75, Toronto, Ontario
Jack Green, 12/28/71, Toronto, Ontario
Ralph Cecil Margeson, 11/11/47, Toronto, Ontario
Alfred Reddish, 11/30/46, Toronto, Ontario
John G. Rowland, 11/03/19, Toronto, Ontario
Sam Delibasich, 12/09/49, Welland, Ontario
Jack Bernard Tuite, 05/16/74, Windsor, Ontario
Rene Raymond, 10/23/96, Bellefeuille, Quebec
Patrice Beaulieu, 11/08/01, Degelis, Quebec
Lucien Brunette, 12/11/49, Huntington, Quebec
Mohamed Beyh, 06/08/03, Montreal, Quebec
Mohamed Sadry, 11/04/01, Montreal, Quebec
Nizafed Deljanin, 12/02/95, Montreal, Quebec
Jean-Claude Audette, 03/12/94, Montreal, Quebec
Michael Christopoulos, 06/03/93, Montreal, Quebec
Fernand Talbot, 08/01/93, Montreal, Quebec
Roland Goyer, 08/14/92, Montreal, Quebec
Octavio Velasquez, 04/12/91, Montreal, Quebec
Jean-Marie Tremblay, 05/14/89, Montreal, Quebec
Alexandre Drolet, 02/28/86, Montreal, Quebec
Hector Brideau, 04/23/84, Montreal, Quebec
Jean Desraspe, 10/19/79, Montreal, Quebec
Fernand Giroux, 10/23/79, Montreal, Quebec
Lucien Lambert, 07/28/79, Montreal, Quebec
Roland Bergeron, 04/14/77, Montreal, Quebec
Armand Richard, 07/28/72, Montreal, Quebec
Auguste Gagner, 09/14/56, Montreal, Quebec
Andre Leon Lorge, 04/28/53, Montreal, Quebec
Adelard Bouchard, 07/17/27, Montreal, Quebec
Richard Cote, 03/25/94, Quebec, Quebec
Roland Faucher, 10/01/50, Quebec, Quebec
Fernand Pelletier, 01/12/93, Quebec (St-Emile), Quebec
Mario Drolet, 04/06/91, Rouyn-Noranda, Quebec
Steve Desjardins, 07/25/89, Sainte-Anne-des-Plaines, Quebec
Fernand Lachance, 08/15/93, St. Jerome, Quebec
Claude Wilson, 12/10/88, St. Jerome, Quebec
Marc Gauthier, 09/01/02, Val-d'Or, Quebec
Marcel Savoie, 04/22/99, Victoriaville, Quebec
Simon Yak Wah Yu, 02/06/77, Regina, Saskatchewan
Glen Earl Dunlop, 07/29/73, Regina, Saskatchewan
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View the US cases only arranged by state and city, or the Canadian cases only arranged by province and city.
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This list does not contain:
Approximately 209 additional taxicab, livery and gypsy cab drivers in NYC 1986-96, reported but names unknown.
4 NYC drivers, names unknown, slain in 1970.
10 drivers, names unknown, slain in Chicago 1982-94.
4 drivers slain in Newark 1995, names unknown.
4 drivers slain in Philadelphia 1988, names unknown.
3 drivers slain in Houston 1985, names unknown.
4 drivers, names unknown, slain in Washington, DC in 2 days, 1979.
3 drivers, names unknown, slain in Washington, DC during Summer 1986.
29 additional US drivers, names unknown, slain 1980-96
An additional 152 US drivers, 1980-86, names unknown, based on NIOSH totals for those years.
An additional 24 US drivers, 1993, names unknown, based on BLS statistics for 1993.
Seven cab drivers killed in a terrorist bomb blast in Bali, Indonesia, Oct 2002.
Two livery drivers, victims of a random killing spree in New York 21 Oct 2002.
A taxi driver, one of seven people murdered in the Washington, DC area, by a random sniper.
155 taxi drivers (names unknown) murdered in India in 2000 (according to Times of India 22 April 2001).
100+ taxi drivers killed in South Africa taxi wars.
95 taxi drivers (names unknown) murdered in Calcutta, India, in 1997-1999 (according to BengalOnTheNet 17 May 1999).
At least six additional drivers slain in Canada (names unknown).
An unlicensed man in Baltimore operating an illegal, unlicensed car as a taxicab.
A taxi dispatcher shot to death by an angry taxi driver.
A taxi driver shot by her son in her home.
Three taxi drivers killed in murder-suicide pacts.
A taxi driver killed in a garage fire while his cab was being repaired.
A taxi driver shot to death by another cabbie, while both on the job, in an alleged power dispute.
A taxi driver who committed suicide after shooting another taxi driver to death.
A taxi driver who committed suicide over alleged job pressure.
two unidentified taxi drivers murdered on the job in Pakistan.
Numerous drivers permanently disabled by assaults during robberies.
A taxi driver murdered in the crossfire between guerrilla rebels and his 4 police passengers who were all killed.
A taxi owner murdered by two of his lessees apparently for perceived predatory practices.
Two taxi drivers murdered in IRA terrorist actions in Northern Ireland.
A taxi driver dying on the job as a consequence of a heart attack.
At least 18 taxi drivers killed in auto accidents.
A taxi driver killed by flying disintegrating brake debris from a passing truck on a freeway.
A limo driver killed in the crossfire of assassination of his boss by terrorists.
5 taxi drivers killed in a family/company feud.
A taxi driver murdered in his own home.
A taxi driver killed in Washington, DC, as an apparent random killing.
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