Bronx Uber driver shot to death behind wheel of SUV, fender-bender road rage suspected

An Uber driver was found dead in his crashed SUV in the Bronx Thursday morning after being shot in the head, possibly during a road rage incident, in the first city homicide of the new year, officials said.

FDNY firefighters responding to an unrelated car blaze in the area found a blue Toyota RAV4 with Taxi & Limousine Commission plates crashed into a parked white sedan on Morris Ave. near the Cross Bronx Expressway service road just before 7 a.m.

The FDNY alerted cops, who determined 55-year-old Issa Mbolo Isac had been shot at least twice in the head.

Members of the New York State Federation of Taxi Drivers are offering a $10,000 reward for information leading to the killer’s arrest.

Fernando Mateo, a spokesman for the group, said the killing took place during a road rage clash over a fender bender.

“They might have gotten into a little fender bender,” Mateo told reporters during a press conference at the taxi advocate’s Bronx headquarters. “The other two gentlemen who chased him down tried to physically take him out of the car, and when he refused to get out of the car, he accelerated the vehicle.

“These two individuals turned around and shot through the window, shooting him twice.”

“He’s married, with four kids in Burkina Faso,” Mateo said of the victim.

The victim’s brother joined Mateo at Thursday’s press conference, at which he condemned his brother’s killers.

“He had a very good heart, and he worked very hard to support his family,” Mounir Zoron, 35, said. “He never had any problems with anybody. He was trying to run away from them and they shot him.

“They are criminals,” he said. “They are animals. He did absolutely nothing to deserve this.”

No arrests have been made. Mbolo Isac lived in Throgs Neck, in the Bronx, according to cops.

“This was a disgraceful and cowardly act of violence,” Mateo said. “Someone out there saw what happened. We need them to come forward now.”

The victim’s SUV has stickers on its windows alerting passengers to the vehicle’s dash cam. The vehicle’s rear driver’s-side wheel was flat after the crash.

The victim previously drove a yellow cab, but sold his taxi medallion to fund the purchase of a house in Africa for his family, Mateo said.

Mbolo Isac split his Toyota with a friend, who drove the SUV for Uber during the day, while the victim used the vehicle evenings and nights.

“He started working at approximately 7 p.m. (on) New Year’s Eve,” said Mateo. “New Year’s Day is a very profitable day, because there aren’t that many drivers willing to work. So we do know that it was a profitable day for him, and he was probably on his way home.”

The NYPD ended 2025 with a 20% drop in homicides citywide compared to last year. As of Tuesday, cops had investigated 303 killing across the five boroughs compared to 381 slayings by the same date last year.

The number of shooting victims in the city dropped 22% in 2025, with 853 victims through Tuesday compared to 1,101 people shot by the same point in 2024, NYPD stats show.

But the Bronx was responsible for more than one-third of homicides and shootings in the city in 2025, cops said.

As of Sunday, cops in the Bronx had seen a 24% drop in shootings in the borough, from 334 last year to 252 incidents this year.

Anyone with information about Mbolo Isac’s murder is asked to call Crime Stoppers at (800) 577-TIPS. All calls will be kept confidential.

With Sheetal Banchariya