Brooklyn cab driver shot in face following fender bender, second violent road rage attack in NYC in two days 30%
By Emma Seiwell50%
7/24/2026, 1:11:26 PM
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A livery cab driver was shot in the face after getting into a fender-bender in Brooklyn early Friday, according to cops and reports.
Following the minor collision on North Portland Ave. near Auburn Pl. in Fort Greene, a man, who was not involved in the accident, pulled a gun and shot the 50-year-old Taxi and Limousine Commission driver in the right cheek at about 4:05 a.m., police said.
Medics rushed the man to New York-Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist Hospital, where he was awake, alert and in stable condition, cops said.
No arrests have been made.
A motive for the shooting was not immediately clear.
Cops are hunting for the suspect, who was last seen wearing a black shirt and gray shorts.
“No taxi driver should fear being executed simply for picking up a passenger and earning an honest living,” said Fernando Mateo, a spokesman for the New York State Federation of Taxi Drivers.
The man wounded in Friday’s shooting was the second cabbie shot in the city in less than two weeks, Mateo said.
Cab driver Danish Sarwar, who immigrated to the U.S. to support his family back in Pakistan, was left partially paralyzed after being shot in the neck by a fare during an attempted carjacking of his brand-new SUV on July 11.
Sarwar, 21, was shot by a passenger he picked up in front of a daycare on Parkside Ave. near Bedford Ave. in Prospect Lefferts Gardens about 4:15 a.m., cops said.
Sarwar was unconscious and in critical condition at Kings County Hospital for over a week.
He awoke on Wednesday, unable to move his left arm or fingers, his brother said.
“Enough is enough.
Our drivers deserve to work safely.
Our families deserve peace of mind.
And the people responsible for these shootings must be brought to justice,” Mateo said in a statement.
The NYSFTD will announce a significant reward for information leading to an arrest in both cases at a press conference in the Bronx on Sunday, he added.
Friday’s shooting comes a day after another motorist was attacked with a meat cleaver following a minor car accident in Queens, officials said.
On Thursday morning, a 47-year-old motorist got into a crazed argument with another driver following a minor collision at 26th Ave. and 127 St. in College Point about 5:35 a.m., police said.
As the quarrel escalated, the assailant hacked the father of two in the back of the head multiple times with the cleaver.
Medics took the victim to New York-Presbyterian Hospital Queens where doctors stitched up some of the gashes, according to his nephew.
The victim hours later was “conscious and awake, said the 22-year-old nephew, who declined to give his name.
“There is some pain in his lower thigh area.”
The irate driver also sliced the victim in the chest and left arm before driving off in a white vehicle.
The victim, who lives on Staten Island, is a caretaker to his elderly father.
The nephew was stunned by the violent attack, saying the victim is not one to pick fights.
“He’s a very well-mannered person,” he said.
“That’s just a very absurd string of events that someone was willing to keep a blade in their car and pull it out at just a random citizen,” he added.
“What they did was highly dangerous and they’re someone who needs to be put up with the justice of law.”
The motorist responsible for the meat cleaver attack remained at large Friday, cops said.
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