JACKSONVILLE – A taxi driver was shot to death Sunday night, and homicide detectives found his cab Monday afternoon.
The Jacksonville Sheriff's Office has identified the victim as 47-year-old Donald Duckett, a Gator City driver, whose body was found at 7 p.m. laying in the middle of Third Street at Mount Herman Court, just west of Interstate 95.
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Police said that he was shot several times. They tell Channel 4 police reporter Jennifer Waugh they believe robbery was the motive in the killing, and said that they are "looking at a couple of suspects."
Duckett's cab -- a Ford Aerostar with Gator City -- was missing, but police found it abandoned in Northwest Jacksonville Monday afternoon. The are processing the vehicle for evidence.
Another Gator City driver -- Patricia Moon -- disappeared last week, and her van was found abandoned at a park in Kingsland, Ga., last Tuesday.
Police report that Moon and her boyfriend have been sighted in Illinois and Missouri, but they continue to treat this as a missing person case until they have talked with her.