Cab driver, passenger robbed at gunpoint

SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (WWLP) - A cab driver and the man he was picking up were both robbed at gunpoint in Springfield early Monday morning, police say.

Capt. Larry Brown told 22News that the driver was on Bay Meadow Road picking up an elderly man who was leaning on a cane, when the suspect, armed with a gun, tackled the driver.

After robbing both the driver and the passenger, the thief drove-off in an older-model black Honda.