The NYPD has released an image of the man wanted in connection to the fatal shooting of a rideshare driver in the Bronx on New Year’s Day.
Police are looking for 24-year-old Ehinel Troncoso after 55-year-old Issa Isac, an African immigrant and rideshare driver, was found shot to death with gunshot wounds to his head inside his Blue Toyota Rav 4 just before 7 a.m. along Morris Avenue in Mount Hope.
He was discovered while firefighters were responding to a car fire.
Police believe Isac was New York City’s first homicide of the year.
Dark and snowy surveillance video shows Isac putting his car into reverse when a man approaches the driver’s side window and starts banging out the window.
Isacs speeds off, and then two men are seen running after his car.
He ended a 12-hour overnight shift driving for Uber just before he was involved in an apparent minor accident.
Investigators believe he may have been shot by another driver after a minor fender-bender went wrong.
The 55-year-old had only been a driver for Uber for 5 years after selling his medallion to purchase a home.
An organization representing livery drivers is offering a $10,000 reward for information about the killing.
Anyone with information regarding 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 at https://crimestoppers.nypdonline.org/, on X @NYPDTips.
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