Cab Driver in Bronx Machete Attack Lost Thumb While Defending Passengers from Teen Carjackers

By Andy Mai and Reuven Blau

When livery driver Richard Deleon’s car and passengers were attacked by a knife-wielding teen, he did everything he could to protect his three passengers — and his head.

“It happened very fast,” Deleon, 47, recalled of the Nov. 19 horror during a press conference Sunday outside the Bronx district attorney’s office. “I tried to stop the attackers.”

For the father of four, the harrowing episode began near Lehman College as his vehicle was stopped at a red light on Jerome Ave. near E. 198th St. early in the morning.

There, two 17-year-olds, Juan Carlos Sanchez and Kenneth Guzman, tried to commandeer his cab, according to authorities.

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Source: NYS Federation of Taxi Drivers, Inc. and The New York Daily News