Pawtucket Man Found Guilty of Killing Boston Taxi Driver

Man convicted in 2019 killing of taxi driver in front of Boston hotel

A man has been convicted of fatally shooting a taxi driver outside a Boston hotel nearly six years ago. Phillip Foy, 40, was found guilty Monday of first-degree murder in the June 4, 2019, shooting of Luckinson Oruma, the Suffolk County District Attorney’s Office said. The sentence carries a mandatory life sentence, with no chance for parole. Oruma, a 60-year-old from Dorchester, was a father of five, his boss told NBC10 Boston at the time of th…

Man convicted of killing Boston cabbie in Back Bay broad daylight shooting

A 40-year-old man has been convicted of killing a cab driver in the Back Bay in a broad daylight shooting that shocked cabbies. Rhode Island man Phillip Foy has been found guilty by a Suffolk County jury of first-degree murder for the fatal shooting of Dorchester 60-year-old man Luckinson Oruma on June 4, 2019. Oruma, who was working as a cab driver in Boston on the day of his murder, had parked his taxi in front of the Colonnade Hotel on Huntin…

Pawtucket man found guilty of killing Boston taxi driver

BOSTON (WPRI) — The Pawtucket man accused of killing a Boston taxi driver in broad daylight nearly six years ago was convicted Monday, according to Suffolk District Attorney Kevin Hayden. Phillip Foy, 40, was found guilty of first-degree murder in the shooting death of 60-year-old Luckinson Oruma on the morning of June 4, 2019. Phillip Foy Hayden said Oruma, who was working as a taxi driver at the time, was parked outside the Colonnade Hotel wh…

Jury finds Rhode Island man guilty of killing Boston man in a shooting outside taxi cab

A Pawtucket man was found guilty of killing a man from Dorchester in a 2019 shooting, Suffolk County District Attorney Kevin Hayden’s office said Monday. Phillip Foy, 40, was found guilty of first-degree murder, which carries a mandatory life sentence without the possibility of parole. Foy is scheduled to be sentenced in Suffolk Superior Court on May 23.

Man convicted of gunning down cab driver outside the Colonnade for refusing to drive him to some remote suburb

A Suffolk Superior Court jury today convicted a man of murdering Luckinson Oruma, a cab driver and father of five for refusing to give him a ride from the Colonnade Hotel on Huntington Avenue to Mansfield in 2019, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports. The first-degree murder conviction of Phillip Foy, 40, of Pawtucket, RI, means an automatic sentence of life without parole, although he will get an automatic review of his sentenc…