Rafael, 16 years old, lived in Alcalá de Henares, but he was originally Miranda de l’Ebro, in Burgos. His parents had sent him to the town of Cervantes with relatives. It was at 7:45 p.m. last Tuesday that this young man from Miranda became the murderer of Isidro, a 62-year-old taxi driver who lived with his nephew in Torrejon de Ardoz.
After a taxi ride of an hour and a half, the minor stabbed Isidro five times, which were fatal to him, at the gates of the Prince of Asturias Hospital in Alcalá. After committing the crime, he remained inside the taxi for a few seconds, feeling strangely cold.
Even so, why Rafael killed Isidro remains a mystery. However, sources close to the case emphasize that, taking into account the age, the coldness of the young man and the course of events, the hypothesis according to which The alleged murderer suffers from some sort of mental pathology.
After the crime, several towns like Alcalá de Henares, Torrejón de Ardoz, Getafe, Pinto, Valdemoro and Alcorcón wanted to show his solidarity with Isidro’s family. In these municipalities a minute of silence was observed in his memory, a gesture that also took place in the Madrid Assembly.
From the taxi sector, they are dismayed and They demand “more security measures”while recognizing that it is difficult to avoid an attack of this nature, in the event that a passenger wishes to attack a taxi driver in a premeditated manner.
Rafael, Isidro’s executioner, of gypsy origin, got into his taxi at the stop on Avenida de los Reyes Católicos and asked him to go to different places in Alcalá. The last, the entrance to the emergency room of the Príncipe de Asturias hospital, where the crime took place.
“We have come to believe that the murderer, who will suffer from mental pathologies, I was immersed in a kind of role play or the fantasy that pushed him to commit the murder,” say taxi industry sources, in an attempt to explain what exactly could have happened.
These sources explain that it was the minor’s mother who “alerted the Police” after seeing her son’s photo in the media. Isidro’s last trip was recorded in his taxi’s security system, which is why the police knew his face from the start. Sources close to the case, who have seen the complete recording, explain that, because of his way of speaking, this minor He could be of gypsy and Spanish origin.
A striking detail of the event is that the treatment between Isidro and the passenger was always “cordial”, as reported by sources close to the case: “The taxi driver tried to give the passenger the opportunity to meet the people with which he said they had left when they arrived at the emergency entrance of the Prince of Asturias Hospital in Alcalá de Henaresthe murderer had a knife ready inside the jacket he was wearing.”
“Hardworking and generous”
After being stabbed, Isidro got out of the taxi shouting ““They killed me”. Furthermore, after attacking the taxi driver, the murderer did not flee the scene, but remained in the taxi for a few seconds.
Isidro’s colleagues are dismayed. They define him as a man “hardworking and generous”: “He was single, but like all of us, he had a family. From the taxi sector, we demand that justice be done and that whoever does it pay.”
In addition, this event once again brought the issue of taxi driver safety to the table, particularly due to the similarities of the case with the murder of the driver. Jose Luis EM in November 2019, who was decapitated by his passenger, curiously, also in Alcalá de Henares.
“After the murder of Jose Luis, Security systems have been installed in Alcalá taxis and permanently record what is happening on board the vehicle. Occasionally the recording is deleted, but if the taxi driver presses a panic button, the footage is retrieved and sent to a security company. This could have happened for the image of Isidro’s killer to be recovered so quickly“, underline taxi sources.
On the other hand, several taxi drivers from Torrejón de Ardoz, the municipality where Isidro lived, and from Alcalá de Henares claim “be afraid”: “If someone wants to attack you, they will do it one way or another, but inside a taxi we are defenseless. Many security systems have been tested, but the truth is that if a passenger wants to attack us, it’s very easy.”
After a warning, doctors from the Príncipe de Asturias Hospital went to the scene of the crime to carry out the first interventions on Isidro and then evacuate him to the intensive care unit (ICU). He was very serious for the five incised stab wounds that hit his hands, lungs and liver, according to what they told Europe Press research sources.
Despite surgical interventions and blood transfusions performed, The taxi driver died Wednesday morning due to the severity of his injuries.
After hearing the news, from the X account, before Twitter, from the town hall of Alcalá de Henares, they published a message expressing their condolences: “Dismayed by the tragic news, from the City Council of Alcalá de Henares, we send on behalf of all the inhabitants of our city, our most sincere condolencesYes and all my love to the family, colleagues and friends of the murdered taxi driver, may he rest in peace.”
