The Brooklyn cabby who was killed with an umbrella came to the United States to provide a better life for his five children, grieving relatives said yesterday.
“He didn’t go to university, and he wanted to do everything in his power for his kids to go to school,” said Orji-Ama Uro’s teary-eyed sister-in-law, Chinedum Agwu, 30, who said the devoted dad moved to New York from Nigeria 10 years ago.
Uro, 54, was killed Thursday in Brownsville when a passenger stabbed him in the eye with the tip of an umbrella, police said.
The motive for the killing was initially thought to be robbery, but investigators found cash and a cellphone in his pockets, sources said yesterday.
A man and woman were spotted fleeing from the scene, but no one had been arrested as of last night.
Agwu said Uro knew his job could be dangerous, and that the livery driver was “cautious.”
“I just hope they’ll be able to find who did this,” she said.
“How do his kids go on?”
Uro’s wife, who lives in Nigeria, had not been told that Uro had been killed, said his brother, Agwu Agwu, 35.
“It’s still a shock to me. He’s a responsible family man,” said the sibling.