Update: Records identify cab driver slain in North Texas

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Update: Records identify cab driver slain in North Texas

Dan Garcia

Story Created: Jul 5, 2009 at 10:06 AM CST

Story Updated: Jul 5, 2009 at 10:07 AM CST

Denton (AP) - Records have indentified a North Texas cab driver whose body was found partially burned, stabbed and with his throat slashed.

Authorities have arrested three people in the slaying and charged them with capital murder. The Fort Worth Star-Telegram reported Sunday that an arrest warrant identified the victim as Hooshang Vatanpour.

Denton County Sheriff's investigators believe the cab driver was robbed and then killed after picking up two men near a bus station in Dallas who wanted to go to Wichita Falls. Freedom Cab Co. said the driver last called in about 7:45 p.m. Thursday.

His blue van was found in tall brush about a mile away from his body around 9 p.m. that day by Justin firefighters extinguishing a grass fire near the Texas Motor Speedway.

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