From January 25, 2006 KSDK channel 5:
KSDK-St. Louis Police say the shooting occurred about 10:30 Tuesday night near Nebraska & Wyoming.
Gunfire woke up Tamyka Seymore. "I heard the shots so I have children in the home, I was trying to get them down on the floor," said Seymore.
Outside her front door, police say the driver of Allen Cab 117 had just shot 16-year-old Roosevelt High School junior Corey Blanks Jr.
Police say Blanks, armed with a sawed off shotgun, tried to rob the cabbie, but the driver pulled out a hand gun, shooting and killing the teen.
Blanks' cousin says the family wants justice. "He needs to pay the price for what he did, he did it, and he got away with it this time. Who's to say he wouldn't try to get away with it again," said Tracy Rucker, his cousin.
Early Wednesday morning, police made phone contact with the cab driver in the 1200 block of N. 15th and took him into custody.
But NewsChannel 5 has learned he passed his criminal background check to drive a cab for the city of St. Louis, even though he's a convicted felon on probation for unlawful use of a weapon.
NewsChannel 5 has learned prosecutors will not charge the cab driver with shooting the teen. However, he may face charges for possessing a weapon as a felon.
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