Latifatou Alimi, the widow of a Bronx Uber driver who was fatally stabbed on Saturday, March 2, has said her husband’s killer took the wrong person.
Alimi said before her 27-year-old husband, Ganiou Gandonou, went to work on the day he was killed he said, “I’m tired, but I have to go and make money.”
The New York Post reports that at 9:08 p.m., cops found Gandonou’s Toyota Camry sitting along the Hutchinson River Parkway East near Einstein Loop North in Baychester.
Inside, Gandonou was bleeding from stab wounds to his neck and chest. He died a short time later at a Medical centre.
Investigators have yet to publicly identify a suspect or motive, but police sources said it may have been a robbery gone wrong.
His widow said their last phone conversation was shortly before he died, he said, “I’ll call you back. I have a customer.”
The mother to a two-year-old boy said;
“I woke up at 2 a.m. and he wasn’t home. So I started calling him. He didn’t pick up,” an inconsolable Alimi said. “I texted him, I said, ‘Babe, are you OK?’
“No reply.
“My husband was a very quiet man, a very hard-working man,” Alimi added remembering how their toddler son would run to the door to greet “Daddy” when he came home from a shift.
“I want to look that person in his face. I want to know the reason why he [did] it because I know for sure he doesn’t got any reason,” she said. “He took the wrong person.”
At a Sunday press conference, the state Federation of Taxi Drivers announced a $3,000 reward for information on the killer.
Uber also released a statement that read, “This is a horribly tragic incident, and our hearts go out to the grieving family. We stand ready to work with law enforcement to assist their investigation in any way possible.”
