Suspect arrested after livery driver shot and killed in Queens

FAR ROCKAWAY (WABC) -- A suspect is under arrest after a livery cab driver was shot and killed in Queens.

Police arrested 38-year old Fabien Sullivan of Queens at his cousin's house in connection with the killing of Leon Brown.

"If I get the chance to look him in his face I would tell him I forgive you," said the victim's father, Al Brown.

That's what he says he would say to Fabian Sullivan if he could sit across from him.

In an exclusive interview, Brown said he's a man of faith, but he admits he's struggling to understand why someone would shoot his eldest son, Leon Brown, to death while he was just doing his job - driving a dollar van to make some extra money.

"He told me he was planning to get married July 25th of this year. He wanted to have a good wedding. He wanted to have something that was outstanding," Al Brown said.

Brown had just picked up a family in Far Rockaway Tuesday morning.

Police believe that 38 year old Fabian Sullivan of Queens - another dollar van driver - pulled up next to Brown and shot him in the chest.

"From witnesses we were able to get is a male in a grey van cut him off, got out of the van and shot one time into the drivers side of the maroon van. Mr. Brown was later pronounced DOA at St. John's hospital," said NYPD Chief of Detectives Robert Boyce.

Meanwhile Brown leaves behind 5 children, the youngest only 2 years old.

His 17 year old daughter was inconsolable at the scene Tuesday.

Brown's father said he knows he must take over for his son now. "I thought I had finished raising my kids because my baby is 22 years old now, but now I have to take on raising his five children as a father and a grandfather," he said.

Leon Brown primarily worked as a construction worker and drove vans on the side.