Saturday, October 02, 1999
Siblings arraigned in cabbie slaying
Third suspect to appear today
BY EARNEST WINSTON
The Cincinnati Enquirer
Andrea Goss
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Lemar Goss
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Denise Lipscomb
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As recently as last week, John Arcady talked to his mother about quitting his part-time job as a cab driver because it was dangerous. Monday night, the 49-year-old was shot to death inside his cab after an attempted robbery in Winton Terrace.
He used the job to supplement his earnings as a drummer.
“John always had a fear of something like this. He knew that it could happen. He was quite cautious,” said his mother, Sally Arcady of Florida.
A brother and sister were arraigned on charges of aggravated murder Friday in Hamilton County Municipal Court. A third suspect will be arraigned this morning. Each is being held in lieu of $500,000 bond.
On Thursday, Mr. Arcady's family, fellow cabbies, and musicians from as far away as California attended a memorial service for the man Mrs. Arcady described as “gentle” and “kind.”
“I will miss his laughter, his jokes, his caring about his mother,” Mrs. Arcady said Friday about her oldest child and only son. “John was not only my son, he was my friend, my pal, my buddy.
“I want to see these people punished, but it will not bring back my son,” she said.
Arrested Thursday were Lemar Goss, 20, and Andrea Goss, 18, both of Pleasant Ridge. Denise Lipscomb, 26, of Winton Place, was arrested Friday.
Police spokesman Lt. Ray Ruberg said interviews with witnesses and neighborhood canvassing led to the arrests.
Mr. Arcady, who drove a cab for Towne Taxi of Roselawn, picked up three passengers in Pleasant Ridge late Monday. When he dropped the trio off at a Metro bus stop on Winneste Avenue, they tried to rob him, Lt. Ruberg said. He was shot in the back of the head but nothing was taken, police said.
Mrs. Arcady said her son was born in Chillicothe and he'll be buried there in the family's cemetery plot. He lived in Florida for more than a decade, moving back to Cincinnati in 1994.
Mr. Arcady drove a cab between music gigs, his mother said. After playing in the band at Moeller High School, he traveled with different bands for at least 25 years, Mrs. Arcady said.
Mr. Arcady was a quiet person, she said, but he liked to make people laugh.
“He was one of the wittiest persons you would ever want to meet,” Mrs. Arcady said. “He was a jokester.”
Mr. Arcady is also survived by four sisters. His father died in 1990.
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