The patron, who asked us to hide his face and change his voice, feared the worst. I thought maybe, you know, I over-tipped him, maybe I dropped money … until I looked out of the corner of my eye and saw a gun pointed at the side of my head.' 'And, for a split second, I thought it was the cab driver.
'When I get out of the cab, within a second someone was right up against me,' the patron said.
Now, he's driving an SUV just two vehicles behind the departing taxi.
A man - who cameras showed several times standing nearby as the patron played cards for more than five hours, even leaning on his chair - left moments before.