Canadian Taxi Driver Homicides, 1917-2007

Canadian Taxi Driver Homicides, 1917-2007

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2M. Serial / Multiple Killings

The following taxi driver homicides involved more than one person, either as the result of a killing spree or for some other reason.

  • After his parole, the killer of Timothy Ross Alward died in a car accident that killed four other people. A shotgun was found in the wreckage of his car.
  • Roland Bergeron was fatally shot by a man who was out on bail while awaiting trial in the stabbing death of a sixteen-year-old store clerk. The killer was later convicted of both murders.
  • Francis (Fritz) Grosso and Bruce Spiers. Both taxi drivers were killed by robbers in the same incident.
  • James William (Sonny) Johnson and Eugene Scott Prince were the victims of a serial killer who shot them a day apart in separate incidents.
  • Lucien Lambert was kidnapped and killed following an attempted robbery, presumably because he witnessed the shooting death of another person.
  • Alan William Martin-Macdonald and 21-year-old student Kristopher Neeves were shot to death by the same killer in separate incidents.
  • Keith Edward McCallum was shot to death presumably because he witnessed the murder of police officer Eric Spicer. After his parole in 1990 the killer murdered 21-year-old student Lynda Shaw.
  • After Trevor O'Dell was shot to death his cab ploughed into a car driven by Alexia Lema, killing her instantly.
  • Yves Pigeon died with 12 others after being locked in a storage room by killers who set the building on fire.
  • After stabbing Fred Shapcott to death, the killer forced his way into a home and murdered Pam Constable, Scott Seabrook and Ellsworth Beers.
  • Fernand Talbot was one of three victims of a two-day killing spree.

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