Emmanuel Malan was a taxi driver who was shot and killed on June 21, 1995, in Manhattan. According to investigators, Malan was driving uptown when a passenger turned on him and shot him in the back of the head, leaving him dead in his cab; his body was later found on East 101st Street. Police treated the killing as part of a violent, fast-moving spree that had already crossed from New Jersey into New York City and involved multiple robberies and shootings.

Authorities identified a parolee, Darnell Collins, also known as Mwanza Atiba Kamau, as the suspect in Malan’s murder. Investigators linked Collins to several close-range shootings and robberies in the hours beforehand and said he had killed another cab driver and stolen that driver’s car during his flight. A calling card associated with an earlier encounter was found near where Malan was discovered, a detail police cited when connecting the episodes.

Collins did not face trial: police say he was spotted in the stolen vehicle, chased into New Jersey, and killed in a shootout with officers on June 21, 1995. Anyone with information about Malan or the events leading up to his death is asked to come forward.