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3RD CABBY SLAIN
DAD FOUND SHOT BEHIND WHEEL IN YONKERS

By JOE MOLLICA, JAMIE SCHRAM and KATI CORNELL

Last Updated: 2:37 PM, September 2, 2009

Posted: 2:37 PM, September 2, 2009

A livery driver was fatally shot in Yonkers yesterday -- the third driver murdered in the metropolitan area over the past two weeks.

Pericles Salas, 32, was shot once in the head at 3:45 a.m. in a suspected robbery and pronounced dead at St. Joseph's Hospital, police said.

Cops found Salas' body slumped behind the steering wheel on Jessamine Avenue after a passer-by reported seeing an unconscious man in a double-parked car on the dark, quiet street.
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There are no suspects, but police believe the cabby picked up the shooter in South Yonkers.

An illegal immigrant from Mexico, Salas supported a wife and 5-year-old daughter, who live in Ohio, and often worked long overnight shifts to make extra money, said Fernando Mateo, head of the New York State Federation of Taxi Drivers.

Salas' brother Diogene saw the victim just two hours before the shooting.

"We'd drive around with each other and we'd always just hang out because I loved him," Diogene said.

"He was a great man and an excellent brother. It's not right what happened. Let's hope this death doesn't fall on deaf ears."

The two previous shootings took place in The Bronx.

On Aug. 23, José Peña-Seguira, a 42-year-old father of four, was killed allegedly by a paroled murderer who shot him in his car near St. Mary's Park in Mott Haven.

One week earlier, on Aug. 17, Amadou Ndiaye, 46, was shot in the heart at Boston Road and Wilson Avenue after the shooter flagged him down and demanded money.

In May, another cabby, Roberto Pita, 37, was shot several times in the back on West Tremont Avenue in The Bronx.

Salas drove a livery car for Mexicana Cab Service for approximately seven years, even though he did not have a hack license, Mateo said.

Mateo said Salas paid Mexicana $80 each week in exchange for being dispatched, and expressed outrage at what he called the company's disregard for the law and safety regulations.

"They have lots of questions to answer," Mateo said.

"There was no partition and no camera in his vehicle. We're going to hold them responsible for his death," Mateo said.

"Pericles would complain to me that dispatchers were not very nice to him. They gave him bad calls to bad areas, even though he paid his dues like everyone else," Diogene Salas said.

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