MOUNT HOPE, Bronx (WABC) — Police are looking for the gunman behind what appears to be New York City's first homicide of the year in the Bronx.
A rideshare driver was found shot to death with gunshot wounds to his head, inside his car, along Morris Avenue in Mount Hope.
An organization representing livery drivers is offering a $10,000 reward for information about the killing.
Issa Isac, 55, an African immigrant, was found inside his Blue Toyota Rav 4 just before 7 a.m. while firefighters were responding to a car fire.
"He was murdered at 6:30, and the person he was speaking to was actually headed to the mosque. Okay, so he said, I'll speak to you later. I'm going into the mosque now and never heard from him after that," Fernando Mateo, NYS Federation of Taxi Drivers, said.
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.
"We do know that it was a profitable day for him, and he was probably on his way home. I believe he didn't live far from where this happened, so, everyone was in shock. When I spoke to the family this morning, they were like, what are you talking about? I just spoke to either at 6:18 in the morning," Mateo said.
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.
"Alittle argument, not from Isaiah's part, but from the other two gentlemen who chased them down, try to physically take him out of the car, and when he refused to get out of the car, he accelerated the vehicle. These two individuals turned around and shot through the window, shooting him twice, impacting him twice in the head," Mateo said.
He ended a 12-hour overnight shift driving for Uber just before he was involved in an apparent minor accident.
Isac's distraught family members, many of whom are also livery drivers gathered at the NY State Federation of Taxi Drivers Headquarters on Thursday afternoon.
The 55-year-old had only been a driver for Uber for 5 years after selling his medallion to purchase a home.
Police are still trying to identify the suspects.
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