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Article and photo from wake (Was: Bus Operator on the B46 Stabbed) |
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Posted by Terrapin Station on Mon Dec 8 10:09:42 2008, in response to Bus Operator on the B46 Stabbed, posted by Railman718 on Mon Dec 1 13:30:00 2008. MTA employees walk to Andrew Torregrossa & Sons funeral home for the wake of Edwin Thomas who was fatally stabbed while driving a bus. Bus drivers mourn slain colleague BY ERICA PPEARSON AND BILL HUTCHINSON DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITERS Monday, December 8th 2008, 12:49 AM Fevelo for News City bus drivers by the thousands braved the blustery chill of winter Sunday night to mourn a hardworking colleague stabbed to death by a fare-beater on his Brooklyn route. A somber line that included Mayor Bloomberg stretched from Edwin Thomas' coffin out the front door of the Andrew Torregrossa & Sonsfuneral home in Brooklyn. Fellow drivers at the wake expressed grief and anger at the death of Thomas, and a few revealed their own fears of meeting a similar fate. "It was an unfortunate tragedy that could have happened to any one of us in this line," said driver Luis Santiago, 41, who was waiting to get into the packed chapel to pay his respects to Thomas' family. Thomas, a 46-year-old father of two teenagers, was slain last Monday when he got into a beef with 20-year-old Horace Moore, who had sneaked aboard the B46 bus in Bedford-Stuyvesant without paying. Cops said Moore stabbed Thomas in the chest and stomach when the driver denied his request for a free $2 transfer. Moore, a paroled ex-con recently released from a prison stint for attempted murder, was captured when he was turned in by a man who regularly buys marijuana from him, police said. "It's a shame that it takes something like this to show the dangers of our job," said driver Ty Johnson, 42, wearing an armband in memory of Thomas. A funeral will be held at 11 a.m. Monday at the Sacred Heart Church in Cambria Heights, Queens. |
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