An elderly recidivist shot a cabbie over a $40 fare in the Bronx – then strolled into a retirement home as the bloodied driver writhed on the street, the victim and officials said Tuesday.
Cabbie Alusine Barrie, a 27-year Guinea immigrant who supports his family back home, was shot in the stomach by Joseph Meeks, 76, while still in the driver’s seat of his yellow taxi outside the suspected gunman’s senior living facility near West 169 Street in Highbridge around 4:30 p.m. on Monday, according to police and the victim.
Barrie then opened the door and fell out of the car with photos showing him lying down on his back as first responders and his mother cared for him in the middle of the street.
“Yeah, he just get out. He closed his door, he turned around and shot me,” Barrie told The Post from his hospital bed. “I tried to put the car in drive, he turned around and shot me.”…