On the night of July 29, 1986, 29-year-old cab driver Sharyn Kamrath picked up a male fare at Sixth Avenue and Broadway in downtown San Diego and accepted a requested destination of 8101 Gilman Drive in La Jolla. After leaving the I-5 and turning onto Gilman Drive, the man produced a handgun, robbed Kamrath of ten dollars, ordered her into the passenger seat, shot her in the neck at point-blank range and pushed her onto the shoulder. The assailant then drove off in Kamrath’s cab; the vehicle was found abandoned two hours later on Fourth Avenue near Upas Street in Hillcrest.

Several passers-by found Kamrath and alerted police. She was taken to a nearby hospital, was conscious and able to give a detailed description of the suspect — a black male, late 20s to early 30s, medium build, clean shaven with short black hair, possibly speaking with a Cuban, Dominican or Puerto Rican accent — but never recovered and died in the hospital on August 26, 1986. The case may be related to the July 1986 murder of cab driver Linda Sue Younger in Old Town.

Did anyone in San Diego at the time recall seeing a cab matching Kamrath’s or recognize the description of the man who got in at Sixth Avenue and Broadway?