LABELLE, Fla. (AP) - A Florida man has been sentenced to life in prison for fatally shooting a taxi cab driver.
A Hendry County State Attorney’s Office news release says 48-year-old Joe McCray was sentenced Friday. He was convicted in March of manslaughter with a firearm and robbery with a firearm causing death.
Prosecutors say two women hired 52-year-old Mohammed Ansari to drive them from the Miccosukee Indian Reservation near Miami to Okeechobee, about 140 miles to the north, in September 2015. The women didn’t have $600 to pay the cab fare and had the driver stop in Clewiston, about two-thirds of the way to their intended destination, to meet up with McCray.
Authorities say McCray shot Ansari in the leg and took $16. Ansari was found alive but died a short time later from his injuries.
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