Asfawosen Alemseged, a musician of Ethiopian descent who also worked as a taxi driver in California, has died of injuries he sustained during an altercation with a passenger at a gas station in Hollywood, Los Angeles.<\/p>\n
On Sunday, at around 3:15 a.m. Los Angeles Police officials responded to a call about an altercation. Upon arrival, officers reportedly found Alemseged unconscious at the parking lot of a gas station near Beachwood Drive and Franklin Avenue, ABC reported.<\/p>\n
Police say he lost consciousness after hitting his head on a pavement during the altercation. Alemseged died from his injuries after being transported to a nearby hospital.<\/p>\n
Officials say Alemseged\u2019s dispute with the passenger, which started inside the cab, may have been about the fare.<\/p>\n
“This probably a fare dispute that escalated into a robbery, into a physical assault, to the victim’s death,” said Lt. John Radtke.<\/p>\n
The Los Angeles Police Department are yet to arrest the suspect<\/a> described as a man about 5-foot-8 inches tall, and 35 to 40 years old.<\/p>\n Investigators assessing surveillance footages of the incident say the suspect has thick dark hair and was last seen wearing a blue long sleeve shirt.<\/p>\n Authorities are using scent dogs in the search to apprehend the suspect who fled the scene.<\/p>\n “What they attempt to do is get a scent from the suspect and then specifically follow that scent wherever it leads them,” Radtke said. “It did lead them eastbound on Franklin and into the local community.”<\/p>\n LA Yellow Cab, the taxi company who Alemseged worked for, described him as a kind person who had a way with his passengers.<\/p>\n “There are safeguards we have in place to protect our drivers, but you can’t prevent everything,” a company spokesman said.<\/p>\n Alemseged had worked with Yellow Cab for 24 years. He was also a musician, singer, writer<\/a>, and poet, popular among the Ethiopian community in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n [Photo by Eric Bennett<\/a>\/CC BY-SA 2.0<\/a>]<\/p>\n Asfawosen Alemseged, a musician of Ethiopian descent who also worked as a taxi driver in California, has died of injuries he sustained during an altercation with a passenger at a gas station in Hollywood, Los Angeles. On Sunday, at around…<\/span> Read more ›<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":10607,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[44,2860,1],"tags":[4897,4898,4967],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Ethiopian-Musician-Working-as-Taxi-Driver-in-Los-Angeles-Dies-After-Fight-With-Passenger-Over-Fare.jpg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10606"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10606"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10606\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10608,"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10606\/revisions\/10608"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}