A hardworking livery cab driver and married father of four\u00a0was gunned down\u00a0\u201cin cold blood\u201d during a Bronx road rage clash\u00a0early Thursday \u2013\u00a0marking the\u00a0city\u2019s first homicide of 2026 and one of four shootings reported just hours into the new year, officials said.<\/p>\n
Issa\u00a0Mbolo-Isac, 55,\u00a0was found with a mortal gunshot wound to the head when cops responded to the intersection of Morris Avenue and the Cross Bronx Expressway in Mount Hope just before 7 a.m., police said.<\/p>\n
Responding EMS workers pronounced him dead at the scene, authorities said.<\/p>\n
Issa\u00a0Mbolo-Isac, 55, was identified as the victim. NYSFTD<\/p>\n
NYPD officers are on the scene of a homicide in the Bronx. Kyle Mazza\/UNF NEWS\/Shutterstock<\/p>\n
Mbolo-Isac, an emigree from Burkina Faso,\u00a0had worked as a rideshare driver for 10 years \u2013 the most recent five with Uber,\u00a0according to Fernando Mateo, the spokesman for the\u00a0\u00a0New York State Federation of Taxi Drivers.<\/p>\n
Two men in another vehicle started arguing with Mbolo-Isaac after a \u201cfender bender\u201d and \u201cchased him down [and] tried to physically take him out of the car,\u201d Mateo told reporters.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen he refused to get out of the car, he accelerated the vehicle,\u201d Mateo said. \u201cThese two individuals turned around and shot through the window, shooting him twice, impacting him twice in the head.\u201d<\/p>\n
The NYPD wasn\u2019t immediately able to confirm Mateo\u2019s description of the slaying.<\/p>\n
He described the victim as\u00a0a \u201cnice person\u201d who \u201cwas never in trouble\u201d\u00a0and \u201chas been exemplary in the line of work that he does.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is very hurtful to us as an industry, to wake up New Year\u2019s Day and know that one of your drivers was murdered, was shot twice in the head,\u201d he said. \u201cIt was no easy news to swallow.\u201d<\/p>\n
Mbolo-Isac\u00a0once owned a medallion, but sold it to buy a house back in\u00a0Burkina Faso, according to Mateo.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cHe was a very good, hard-working man,\u201d said the slain driver\u2019s brother, Mounir Zoron, 35. \u201cHe worked very hard every day to support his family. He had no issue with anybody. He was trying to run away from these a\u2013holes. He was trying to run away from them and they shot him. They\u2019re criminals. They\u2019re animals. He did absolutely nothing to deserve this.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Members of the NYPD Crime Scene Unit and NYC Office of the Chief Medical Examiner work the scene. Kyle Mazza\/UNF NEWS\/Shutterstock<\/p>\n
Mbolo-Isac was discovered in his car with a gunshot wound to his head. Kyle Mazza\/UNF NEWS\/Shutterstock<\/p>\n
The federation is offering a $10,000 reward for anyone who can provide information on \u201cwho killed Issa in cold blood,\u201d Mateo said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cWe know that we have the best detectives in the world \u2026 So we believe that in the next few days, we will have someone in custody,\u201d he said, \u201cbut in the meantime, we are all heartbroken.\u201d<\/p>\n
The New Year\u2019s Day violence began just five minutes after the iconic Times Square ball drop \u2013 with a 61-year-old man blasted in the left leg on Crescent Street near Pitkin Avenue in East New York, police said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
He was taken to Brookdale University Hospital Medical Center, where he was listed in stable condition, cops said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Then around 2:40 a.m., a 26-year-old woman was shot in the torso inside the Hotel Sunborn on New Jersey Avenue near Fulton Street in Cypress Hills, authorities said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
She went to the same hospital, where she was listed in stable condition, and a person of interest was taken into custody with charges pending, police said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Two more people were wounded \u2013 one critically \u2013 by a lone shooter who opened fire near Yankee Stadium around 8 a.m., police said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The elusive suspect opened fire at three men who were walking along the Grand Concourse near East 161st Street, police said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
A 31-year-old man was shot in the groin, ankle and leg, and an unidentified man also took a bullet to the groin, authorities said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Both men were taken to Lincoln Medical Center, where the 31-year-old was listed in stable condition and the other victim considered critical, police said.<\/p>\n
The third man fled the scene before police arrived, and it was unclear if he was hurt, cops said.<\/p>\n
The assailant fled the scene in a black SUV, authorities said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The motives for the early-morning string of shootings remain under investigation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A hardworking livery cab driver and married father of four\u00a0was gunned down\u00a0\u201cin cold blood\u201d during a Bronx road…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":486955,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,4219,4221,5248,27813,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,5305,67,586,132,5230,68,1154,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-486954","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-crime","10":"tag-homicide","11":"tag-metro","12":"tag-murders","13":"tag-new-york","14":"tag-new-york-city","15":"tag-newyork","16":"tag-newyorkcity","17":"tag-ny","18":"tag-nyc","19":"tag-the-bronx","20":"tag-united-states","21":"tag-united-states-of-america","22":"tag-unitedstates","23":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","24":"tag-us","25":"tag-us-news","26":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115825237564729382","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486954","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=486954"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486954\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/486955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=486954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=486954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=486954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}