'He at all times put others first.' Cab driver who was fatally crushed remembered at funeral service – Information 12 New Jersey

Dozens
of mourners remembered Bronx cab driver Kutin Gyimah throughout funeral providers
Friday six weeks after he was fatally crushed.

The
ceremony was emotional for Gyimah’s family members and 4 younger kids who’re
nonetheless in disbelief that their father is gone.

Gyimah
was simply beginning his workday on Aug. 13 when he dropped passengers off at Seashore
54 Road and Arverne Boulevard in Far Rockaway, Queens. Police say the
passengers tried to evade the cab fare and assaulted Gyimah
when he chased after them.

He hit
his head on the bottom, which brought about his dying.

“I
wish to advise folks to turn into obsessed with different folks’s emotions,” his
spouse stated on the funeral service. “The way in which my husband was taken away, it
has damage lots of people, he comes from a household, and we’re actually, actually
damage.”

She
instructed Information 12 that she hopes her husband’s dying serves as a lesson to not take
benefit of others.

Dozens
of relations confirmed up sporting crimson and black, which signifies in Ghanian
tradition that they’re in a interval of mourning. The explanation they waited practically
six weeks to carry the funeral is as a result of lots of Gyimah’s relations needed to
journey to the Bronx from Ghana.

Church
chief Daniel Obeng says the final six weeks have been painful.

“He
led an excellent life,” he stated. “He
by no means put himself first. He at all times put others and his household first and we by no means
in our total lives although this may occur to him. He does not deserve it at
all.”

Gyimah
is being buried on the Oakland Cemetery.