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August 6, 2012

Cabbie tells police he was shot, robbed

Sandra K Reabuck The Tribune-Democrat

JOHNSTOWN — A taxi cab driver told city police that he was shot and robbed early today in the city’s Oakhurst neighborhood.

Johnstown police were dispatched at 12:44 a.m. to a house in the 500 block of Brush Avenue, where the cab driver was found wounded. He told police that he had picked up two black men and a white man in downtown Johnstown, Johnstown police Chief Craig Foust said.

The cab was found several block away on Meridan Place, also in the Oakhurst section, the chief said.

The victim was taken to Memorial Medical Center.



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