Orji-Ama Uro, dedicated family man from Nigeria who met a grim end. (
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The livery driver gruesomely murdered with an umbrella was a hardworking father-of-five who emigrated from Nigeria for his kids.
“He came to get a better life. 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 sister-in-law, Chinedum Agwu, 30, who said the cabbie was always “cautious.”
He moved here 10 years ago, she said.
“I just hope they’ll be able to find who did this. How do his kids go on?”
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His wife lives in Nigeria, and still does not know he is dead, said his brother, Agwu A. Agwu, 35.
“It’s still a shock to me. He’s a responsible family man,” he said.
Uro, 54, was killed yesterday when a passenger stabbed him in the eye with the tip of an umbrella. A man and woman were spotted fleeing from the scene.
The motive for the killing was initially thought to be robbery — but investigators found a couple hundred dollars in his pocket, and he still had his cell phone, police sources today said.