Rockford police continue to investigate the shooting death of a 31-year old cab driver.
Authorities received word at around 2 Saturday morning of a suspicious vehicle in the 500 block of North Avon Street. Officers found the cab driver dead in his car. He had been shot in the upper torso.
Police say that the taxi was sent to an address on North Avon Street to pick up a fare. They are treating the shooting as a robbery and homicide.
This is the first time a cab driver has been shot and killed in Rockford.