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Yet another taxi driver has been murdered while running night shifts. Kevin “Kebo” Flowers, Sr., 37, a resident of Jane Usher Boulevard, was shot to death last night sometime after midnight at the corner of Fabers Road and Central American Boulevard.
    
Flowers was a part of the Port Loyola Taxi Union (PLTU), and it was at the parking spot of the association that he was murdered by his assailants.
    
Police say that he was standing between two cars parked one behind the other, near the sidewalk, when two dark-complexioned men approached him on bicycles and fired several shots at him, causing the fatal injuries. He was pronounced dead on arrival at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital.
    
Amandala attempted to speak with the taxi drivers who may have been present for Flowers’ murder, but none of them would comment to us.
    
We spoke to one of Flowers’ close friends, Rodwell Tasher, who told us that he lives very near to the parking spot of the PLTU. Tasher said that he was awakened at about 12:30 a.m. by the sound of a barrage of gunshots. He said that he didn’t see anything, but somebody told him that someone had died on the corner of Fabers Road and Central American Boulevard.
    
He said that he opened his door and went into the street and found his friend dead on the sidewalk. Nevertheless, he picked Flowers up and rushed him to the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital, and there, Flowers was put on the emergency gurney. The medical officers also pronounced him dead soon after that.
    
According to Tasher, he observed a gunshot wound just over one of Flowers’ eyes (he didn’t specify which eye) with an exit wound at the back of his head, but in his haste to get him to the hospital, he didn’t check to see what Flowers’ other injuries were.
    
Tasher told us that he doesn’t think that robbery was the motive, because as far as he could see, Tasher had all his belongings with him after the men shot him.
    
He also is unsure why anyone would want Flowers dead. Tasher said that Flowers was a quiet man who did late-night taxi runs and kept to himself most of the times. By all accounts of people who knew him, Flowers was a very hard working man who did his best to provide for his family.
    
He was a single father of 3 children who ran his taxi business at night, so that during the day, he could work on building his house.
    
Coincidentally, Flowers was introduced to the media after his 2-bedroom wooden house on Curl Thompson Street collapsed back in August, 2009. He told the media that his pleas to Minister of Works, Anthony “Boots” Martinez, for assistance to rebuild his house, fell on deaf ears.
    
Police have said that they have detained four people for questioning; no one has been formally charged as yet.

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