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DALLAS - It was stunning to wake up Monday and learn a Dallas cab driver had been murdered.
It's not the first time it has happened to a taxi driver, but I can't remember one victimized twice during the same crime.
Bashir Abraham picked up two men from a club. However, he didn't know that inside the club, moments earlier, his passengers had been involved in some kind of altercation, police said.
Abraham, just 30, was stopped at an intersection when another car came up along side and opened fire. Abraham took the brunt of the blast, his passengers were slightly wounded.
The shooter took off, and that was when Abraham was victimized a second time. Rather than rush him to the hospital or comfort him in his final moments, police say the injured passengers opened his cab door, pulled Abraham out and left him on the side of the road dying and they drove his cab to the hospital for their own treatment..
Police discovered Abraham lying on the side of the road later and took him to the hospital.
I would like to think there is some explanation for why the passengers did what they did. The shooter was gone; their injuries were minor.
We focus on character in this commentary each week, or in this case, the lack thereof.
We're told these men violated no law, but it isn't law that should have made them act. It's doing the right thing, getting help for themselves and Abraham.
Yes, the passengers were victims, too, but only once.
The writer Robert Zand may have been right when he said, "There are too many people, and too few human beings."
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