12/20/2008 01:38 PM

4 arrested in cab driver shooting

By: Jessica Cervantez

4 arrested in cab driver shooting
RALEIGH – Four people are now in custody after an investigation into the death of a cab driver found shot and killed Monday night in the parking lot of the Quail Ridge Apartments.

18-year-old Eugene Dumas, 17-year-old Xavia Barnes, and 19-year-old Alexander Gonzales were already in custody for unrelated incidents Thursday, and police arrested 19-year-old Jayshon Norment. All four are charged with murder.

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The investigation is still ongoing, but Raleigh police said in a news release that information leading to these arrests happened after reports from a checkpoint conducted on Quail Ridge Road in North Raleigh Thursday night.

Police said the cab driver, 59-year-old Michael Howard Palmer, was on the job when he was shot to death right after he dropped off a customer he picked up at a bus stop.

Palmer’s family had requested help in solving the case.

“My father was a very hard-working man,” Vonise Palmer, the victim’s daughter, said. “He was a caring man. He liked to help people.”