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Vincent B. Darbenzio, 47, was shot and killed while working as a cab driver in Scranton, Pennsylvania, in the early morning hours of a Friday in May 2014. He had been driving for McCarthy Flowered Cab for about a month. His body was found in his vehicle on Crown Avenue with two gunshot wounds to the head; the discovery described him hanging from the driver’s side door.

Police traced the fare to a residence where 16-year-old Aazis Richardson of Newark, New Jersey, was staying. Investigators found Richardson hiding in the attic with a handgun. He confessed, saying he shot Darbenzio after believing the driver took a longer route to Valley View Terrace Apartments to overcharge him, and that he took $500.

Richardson was charged as an adult with multiple degrees of murder and robbery. In August 2015, then 17-year-old Richardson pleaded guilty; in October 2015 a judge sentenced him to 45 years to life, with parole eligibility at age 62. Did anyone know Darbenzio or remember recent fares around Crown Avenue that night?