HOUSTON — An argument over a fare led to a taxi driver being shot by a customer in west Houston overnight.
Houston police responded to a call of a shooting around 1 a.m. in the 11900 block of Beechnut and found a taxi driver had been shot once in the leg. He was transported to a local hospital and is expected to survive.
The taxi driver told police he had picked up fare off of Club Creek and drove him north to an apartment complex on South Kirkwood near Bellaire Boulevard. Then the driver and the fare got into an argument over the amount of change the driver gave the him in return.
Police say that is when the fare got of the cab and pulled a pistol and shot once through the door of the cab striking the driver in the leg.
Investigators are trying to see if there are any surveillance cameras in the area where the shooting took place. They are also working with the cab driver to get a description of the alleged shooter.
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