HYANNIS – The Barnstable Police Department received a call at 7:30 p.m. from a local taxi driver who stated he had been stabbed on Camp St. in Hyannis.
Responding units located the victim along with a suspect who was leaving the area as police arrived.
The taxi driver sustained what appeared to be knife wounds to the upper torso. The suspect, a 19-year-old Bourne man, was taken into custody at the scene.
This incident remains under investigation.
2nd update: Further investigation revealed a 47-year-old Town Taxi driver was picking up a fare on Camp Street shortly before 7:30 p.m. last evening. During the pick-up, the taxi driver became involved in an argument with the customer and refused to take him to his destination.
As the taxi driver backed out of the parking lot, the male suspect stabbed him through the open driver’s window of the car, striking him in the chest and arm.
The suspect taken into custody at the scene, falsely identified himself as an adult, and it has since been determined he is a juvenile.
The taxi driver was transported to Cape Cod Hospital for injuries that were not life-threatening and was treated and released.
