Taxi driver shot dead
Police were called to reports of shots being fired
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Wednesday, 14, Mar 2007 12:40
A 53-year-old taxi driver has died after being shot while in his Hackney cab in Sheffield.
Police said that the man died after receiving gunshot wounds at about 01:45 GMT this morning in Scott Road, Pitsmoor.
"Police officers were called to reports of shots being fired and a road traffic collision," a spokeswoman for South Yorkshire police said.
"On arrival at the scene police found the taxi driver, who was driving a Hackney cab, had suffered gunshot wounds."
The scene and part of the road have been cordoned off, the spokeswoman added, and forensic examinations are taking place.
Police are appealing for anyone who witnessed the shooting or was in the area at the time to contact them.
Concerns about the increasing availability of guns on Britain's streets have grown in recent months after a spate of shootings.
Three teenagers were shot dead in London last month alone and other incidents across the country have been covered widely in the media.
Michael Dosunmu, 15, was shot by gunmen in his Peckham home in south London; 16-year-old James Andre Smartt-Ford from New Malden was fatally shot at an ice rink in south London; and Billy Cox, 15, was killed by gun shot near a tube station in Clapham just a few days later.