Wednesday, March 9, 2011 | 6:59 p.m.
Surveillance Footage in Taxi
Surveillance footage from a taxicab taken before the driver was fatally shot.
Less than a week after the slaying of a North Las Vegas cab driver, Lamar Advertising is donating digital billboards in Las Vegas and California to help identify two people police describe as persons of interest in the case.
Metro Police spokesman Bill Cassell said the billboards will display the images of two passengers the cab driver, Tesfaye Arze, picked up moments before he was shot in the head in the area of Mt. Hood Street and Carey Avenue in the northeast valley.
In addition to Las Vegas, the billboards will be displayed in Riverside, Calif., and San Bernardino County, Calif.
Officers responded at 3:36 a.m. Friday to reports of shots fired in the 6300 block of High Sierra Avenue. Police found Arze dead in the street near the taxi.
Investigators believe robbery was the motive.
Anyone with information about the identities or whereabouts of the two persons of interest depicted in the cab’s video are urged to call Metro’s Homicide Section at 828-3521 or Crime Stoppers at 385-5555.
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