Man Arrested in Death of Roseville Cabdriver

A 20-year-old man has been arrested in connection with the shooting death of a cab driver in Minneapolis last week, according to a news report today from KSTP TV News.

Minneapolis police say Samuel Johosephat Taylor was arrested around 9 p.m. Tuesday after turning himself in at City Hall, the television station reported.

Roseville cabdriver William Harper, shot dead in his car last Thursday evening, had just returned to cabdriving a week earlier after years of driving limousines, his brother Bob Harper told Roseville Patch in

“He just basically got that cab,” Bob Harper said. “I don’t know why he went back to cab driving.”

The 56-year-old Fernwood Street resident was killed at about 10 p.m. on March 15 in North Minneapolis.

Harper’s brother, Bob, described him as “a very good-hearted person.”

The Star Tribune has reported that 11 Twin Cities cabdrivers have been killed on the job since 1990, most recently in 2009 when a 41-year-old driver was stabbed with a screwdriver while sleeping in his parked car.

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