A 40-year-old man has been convicted of killing a cab driver in the Back Bay in a broad daylight shooting that shocked cabbies.

Rhode Island man Phillip Foy has been found guilty by a Suffolk County jury of first-degree murder for the fatal shooting of Dorchester 60-year-old man Luckinson Oruma on June 4, 2019.

Oruma, who was working as a cab driver in Boston on the day of his murder, had parked his taxi in front of the Colonnade Hotel on Huntington Avenue.

Foy got into the cab and asked for a ride to Mansfield. Oruma, a father of five, declined the fare.

“You’re going to move this cab or I’ll move you,” Foy told Oruma near the Prudential Center, according to prosecutors.

Foy then got out of the cab, opened the driver’s side door, and assaulted Oruma for refusing to drive him down to Mansfield, prosecutors said.

At some point during the assault, Foy pulled out a gun and shot Oruma, who fell to the ground. Foy stood over Oruma and fired directly at him. Oruma sustained nine bullet wounds.

Foy then got into the cab, drove down Huntington Avenue, turned onto Ring Road and parked. He emptied and discarded the gun and magazine, removed his shoes, and sat in front of a nearby Starbucks.

When police arrived, Foy grabbed a pedestrian and tried to shield himself. Police diffused the situation and arrested Foy, who confessed to shooting Oruma but claimed it was in self-defense.

“The shooting death of Luckinson Oruma was shattering not just for his family and friends, but for anyone who goes to work each day expecting, as they should, to be in a safe environment,” Suffolk DA Kevin Hayden said in a statement.

“This defendant turned Mr. Oruma’s environment into something tragically different, and I’m very grateful that the jury held him accountable for his devastating actions,” Hayden said.

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A first-degree murder conviction carries a mandatory life sentence without the possibility of parole.

Foy will be sentenced on Friday in Suffolk Superior Court.