driver it beaten to death after a group of riders refused to pay their fare. thee suspects have been arrested including 20-year-old austin amos. the new york city federation of taxi drivers now offering a $15,000 reward for information leading to more arrests. we can t look at, you know and defend people that commit crime. it s not the way to go. you need to stop defending victims. because we are the city. and we need to take our city back. mayor adams blames the changes in bail laws for exploding crime which has led to catch, release, and repeat. and in this case we receipt, repeat, repeat again 14 times. steve: todd, thank you very much. the guy who sucker punch the other guy who wound one a brain bleed currently in a chemically induced coma right there, they didn t know each other, and so that guy, the assailant apparently later, he confesses to his parole officer. he said yeah, i hit a guy really hard.
Austin Amos, 20, was described as one of the group who tried to rob Kutin Gyimah, 52, on Beach 54th St. near Arverne Blvd. in the Edgemere section of the Rockaways about 6:30 a.m. Saturday after the cabbie dropped them off in his yellow minivan, said cops.
Video shows five youths surrounding father-of-four Kutin Gyimah, 52, before they began punching and kicking him, with one male suspect delivering a fatal blow to his head that sent him to the ground.