The driver, Ganiou Gandonou, was found shortly after 9 p.m. seated inside a black Toyota Camry with stab wounds to his neck and torso, police said. He was taken from the car, which was parked on the Hutchinson River Parkway East, to Jacobi Medical Center, where he died.
Police are looking into whether Gandonou’s death began as a robbery.
Gandonou was a licensed for-hire vehicle driver affiliated with Uber, according to a city database. It is unclear if Gandonou was working at the time of the attack.
An Uber spokesman, Grant Klinzman, called his death “a horribly tragic incident” and said “our hearts go out to the grieving family.”
“We stand ready to work with law enforcement to assist their investigation in any way possible,” Klinzman said in a statement.
This article originally appeared in The New York Times.