News 4 Jax
June 21, 2014
Police in Jacksonville have arrested a 23-year-old man in the killing of a cab driver on the Northside earlier this month.
Rohbanni Wilson is charged with murder in the shooting death of 43-year-old Stuart Carson.
Carson was sitting in his Gator City Taxi cab on West 27th Street at about 7:45 a.m. June 7 when he was shot and killed.
Police said Wilson became a person of interest, and through evidence obtained from a search warrant and from witnesses, he was identified as a suspect.
Wilson was located by the U.S. Marshals Service on Wednesday in the 1200 block of Mayport Landing Circle in Atlantic Beach. Wilson lived in an apartment one block away from where Carson was killed.
On the Florida Department of Law Enforcement’s sex offender database, which lists Wilson on a 2010 conviction of lewd and lascivious battery on a child, shows his last registered address was on Mayport Landing Drive.
Investigators said they did not know the motive for the killing.
They said this killing of Carson was not related to the stabbing and robbery of another cab driver in the Moncrief area three days later.
“I’m being a little vague with you guys and there’s a reason for it,” said Chief Adam Brown, of the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office. “Even though we have charged the suspect with the one count of murder, the investigation is continuing and is still active. We’re getting more information in reference to the case, so I cant really go into detail about how we found him or what led up to it. But we have physical evidence, we executed a search warrant where we obtained more evidence, and we also have witness testimony.”
Carson’s family said they are relieved to know an arrest has been made, but they are still coping with their loved one’s death.
“Horrible. Up until yesterday, we finally got a chance to be excited about something and happy about something,” Kelly Redington, Carson’s wife, said of the arrest.