THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT 
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DATE: Thursday, July 18, 1996               TAG: 9607180410
SECTION: LOCAL                   PAGE: B4   EDITION: FINAL 
DATELINE: PORTSMOUTH                        LENGTH:   38 lines

CORRECTION/CLARIFICATION: ***************************************************************** A MetroNews brief reported Thursday that a woman who had reportedly stabbed a cab driver was attempting to rob him. Portsmouth police, however, did not state that robbery was the motive for the stabbing. The cab driver shot and killed the woman, police said. Correction published Friday, July 19, 1996. ***************************************************************** CAB PASSENGER KILLED

A cab driver shot and killed a 19-year-old woman who had stabbed him while trying to rob him Tuesday, police said.

Police found Chanel Lanise Wright with a gunshot wound and the cab driver with stab wounds to his upper body in the 1100 block of Richmond Ave.

Wright, of the 1300 block of Barbour Drive, was a cab fare, according to police. Officials said she gave the driver directions to turn and then stabbed him.

Police said the driver and Wright struggled, causing the cab to crash into a parked vehicle. The cab driver, whom police would not identify, then shot Wright in self-defense, police said.

No charges have been filed in the case, pending further investigation. The cab driver was not hospitalized for his injuries, police said.

According to a recent study by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, cab drivers are the most likely victims of workplace violence, and they have the riskiest profession in America. Last year in the United States, 86 taxi drivers were killed.

KEYWORDS: MURDER SHOOTING ROBBERIES

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