For not having paid only 30 or 40 euros for the race. Maybe to make the “simpa” funny. This seems to have been the reason, if you can call it that, for a young man to have stabbed the life of Isidro, a former taxi driver from Alcalá de Henares. A resident of Torrejón de Ardoz, he had been a member of the union for around twelve years. Although the event occurred late Tuesday afternoon, as reported by ABC, the victim died yesterday at noon in the intensive care unit of the Príncipe de Asturias Hospital, near which she was stabbed.
Homicide Group VI of the Madrid Police Headquarters. The main hypothesis that was put forward at the end of this edition, while the search for the murderer was underway, is that the customer did not agree with the price of the ride and had no better argument than to end the driver’s life. , a 62-year-old Spaniard. The car’s camera recorded the crime footage.
At around half past six in the afternoon, the suspect went to the taxi rank located at number 43 Avenida de los Reyes Católicos, in the center of Alcalá. It is one of the main roads of the city, which leads to the historic center of the municipality, next to the Huerta del Obispo. The starting point of the race is near an inter-block neighborhood where troublesome people live and it is not excluded that the suspect lives there.
The vehicle is a Eurotaxi, a Volkswagen Caddy, used mainly for transporting people in wheelchairs and people with reduced mobility. As for the stop, it is busier in the morning than in the afternoon, although it is possible that there was another taxi driver behind Isidro’s and that he witnessed the start of this service.
He then asked Isidro to take him to the Espartales Sur neighborhood. Specifically, in an urbanization known as El Camino del Sueño, where industrial warehouses actually coexist with small plots. There he said to her: “I met a man here, you will have to wait for me, because afterwards I want to go elsewhere.” The sources consulted indicate that the passenger was a young man with dark skin and wearing a cap. And it could have something to do with drugs.
“We don’t think it was a theft.”
The truth is that “Isidro waited for him for a while, in an area that can be conflictual” and that, returning to the vehicle, the client told him to continue towards the emergency area of the local Príncipe de Hospital. Asturias. It is unclear whether the meeting the murderer attended took place at a business or a home. Once we arrived outside the health center, at the parking lot, the passenger, sitting in the back seat, began to argue with Isidro. We suspect that he blamed her for the price of the trip and that he could have used the excuse of a driving maneuver when arriving at the hospital to refuse to pay the amount. The many friends and colleagues of Isidro with whom this newspaper spoke yesterday converged on the same profile: “He was an honest and much loved man. He had no problem fighting with anyone. “We don’t believe it was a theft.”
Another colleague of the victim pointed out “how illogical it is to rob someone at the door of a hospital where there are constantly police officers transporting detainees, civil guards with prisoners from Alcalá Meco and security guards in the emergency room. “In addition,” insists this taxi driver, “Isidro does not correspond to the profile of a person looking for a fight, quite the contrary.”
Then, in the middle of an argument, the young man took out a knife and stabbed the taxi driver four or five times, including in the lower back, bursting vital organs such as his liver. The vehicle’s interior security camera recorded the entire scene. He tried to get out of the car as best he could to ask for help and several doctors who were smoking a cigarette outside saw him bleeding. He was quickly assisted and admitted directly to intensive care, where he received a few blood transfusions.
But yesterday at noon he expired. In rejection of what happened, at 1 p.m., in Cervantes Square, a union meeting was called. The bad memory of the previous taxi driver murdered in Madrid is still fresh. This happened in November 2019, also in Alcalá. The death of José Luis Espada Morales, stabbed ten times and who died at the age of 59, left the profession in shock, because it could not be otherwise. It was a stab wound to the aorta that ended his life. They only stole a few coins he had in the car compartment and the murderer fled.
