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Two of 5 suspects arrested in killing of NYC taxi driver: report
By Pilar Arias
Published August 18, 2022
***WARNING: GRAPHIC VIDEO
The New York Police Department has arrested two of five suspects wanted for beating a taxi driver to death in Queens over the weekend.
Two men were arrested overnight, according to The New York Post. The newspaper says they confirmed the arrests from police sources.
Austin Amos, 20, was previously announced as wanted in connection with the death of 52-year-old Kutin Gyimah, FOX 5 New York reported.
Gyimah was a married father of four young children from Ghana, lived with his family in the Bronx and was working at his job as a cab driver in Queens on Sunday morning when he let out a group of five passengers at approximately 6:30 a.m. near Beach 54 Street and Arverne Boulevard.
The NYPD identified twenty-year-old Austin Amos as one of Kutin Gyimah’s alleged attackers.
Instead of paying the cab fare, the group allegedly tried to rob Gyimah. Law enforcement sources told WNBC that surveillance footage shows Gyimah chasing after the group on foot, grabbing onto one of them attempting to flee.
The group then allegedly begins to beat the driver. One of them delivered a blow to Gyimah that sent him to the pavement and rendered him unable to get back up.
The beating was caught on surveillance video by the NYPD.
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Kutin Gyimah's widow and children gather for a press conference with the New York State Federation of Taxi Drivers. (WNYW)
The additional four suspects have been described as two girls between the ages of 13 and 15, a girl around 16 years old, and another man around 20 years old, according to FOX 5.
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Anyone with information in regard to this incident is asked to call the NYPD's Crime Stoppers Hotline at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477) or for Spanish, 1-888-57-PISTA (74782). The public can also submit their tips by logging onto the Crime Stoppers website, or on Twitter @NYPDTips.
Editor's note: A previous version of this article stated that authorities detained one suspect. Breaking developments required us to update the article to reflect that two suspects are now in custody and have been arrested at the time of this update.
Fox News' Danielle Wallace contributed to this report.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/suspects-arrested-killing-nyc-taxi-driver-report