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Miguel Reyes Morales
October 27, 2007
Boyle Heights, California

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CBS Channel 2
Los Angeles

Oct 27, 2007 4:04 pm US/Pacific
Cab Driver Shot And Killed In Boyle Heights

(CBS) BOYLE HEIGHTS A 40-year-old cab driver was shot and killed in Boyle Heights early Saturday, police said.

Miguel Reyes Morales was shot to death by unknown assailants inside his "On Time" cab around 3:45 a.m., according to a Los Angeles Police Department news release.

The taxi ran off the roadway, jumped a curb and crashed into a fence at 532 Sloat Street, a block north of Evergreen Cemetery, police said.

A fellow cab driver drove by and recognized Morales' vehicle and stopped to check on him.

Morales was pronounced dead at the scene, police said.

Anyone with information about this shooting was asked to contact Hollenbeck Homicide Detectives MacDonald or Dugger at (323) 526-3142 or (323) 266-5964.

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