Aurora police Wednesday morning said they have a 23-year-old man from Chicago in custody in the shooting of a taxi driver Tuesday during an attempted armed robbery on the city’s East Side.
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Charges have not yet been filed, police spokesman Dan Ferrelli said in an emailed statement.
At about 12:10 a.m. Tuesday, officers found the 49-year-old driver in his taxi with a non-life-threatening gunshot wound, in the 400 block of Grant Street, police said in a news release.
The man picked up a fare minutes earlier at a gas station at North Avenue and Broadway Avenue, according to police.
When the taxi driver dropped off the passenger at his requested location on Grant Street, the passenger demanded the driver’s money, then shot him in the chest and ran away, according to police.
At some point during the attempted robbery, the taxi driver accelerated and crashed into an unoccupied SUV parked nearby, police said.
The driver’s only apparent injuries were from the shooting, according to police. Aurora Fire Department paramedics took the driver to an Aurora hospital for treatment. The passenger did not get away with any money or valuables, according to the news release.
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