[CCW IN ACTION] Police Say Taxi Driver Showed Great Restraint Against Passenger Wielding An Ice Pick

By James England

GATES, NEW YORK — A taxi driver successfully defended himself from a passenger after she refused to pay him and advanced towards him with an ice pick. This taxi driver had prior experiences with passengers trying to stab him, though, so he made the wise decision to carry a legally licensed and concealed handgun.

via 13 WHAM News

“She had the ice pick and was coming towards me, so I started backing up and she kept coming,” the taxi driver said. “I was like, ‘Look, don’t come any further. Don’t make me do this. I don’t want to have to hurt you.’”

The taxi driver had driven her to where she wanted to go but when he asked for payment, she said she couldn’t pay him. From a prior experience where he had been stabbed 13 times by another passenger, the taxi driver got out of the vehicle and asked her to wait on the curb until police arrived. That’s when 39-year-old Katrina Green drew an ice pick and started walking towards him.

“I believe she would have killed me had if I had been close enough to her,” said the man who drove the taxi.

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Source:: Concealed Nation