CENTRAL FALLS — A Providence cab driver is in critical condition at Rhode Island Hospital after he was shot in the head yesterday at midday, according to Central Falls police.

Police Chief Joseph Moran identified the man as Jose Rodriguez, a cab driver for Gonzalez Cab Co. on Cranston Street in Providence. Rodriguez had turned 42 yesterday.

The man was apparently shot on Fuller Avenue between Garfield and Sumner streets in Central Falls, according to Moran. He said that the police found the man in the driver’s seat of his cab which had crashed against a fence on Fuller Avenue, a street lined with two- and three-deckers about a block from police headquarters in this square-mile city.

As of yesterday evening, the police had not made an arrest, Moran said.

The Fire Department received a 9-1-1 call on a cell phone regarding the incident and, as is customary, notified the police who went to the scene first, according Fire Chief Rene Coutu. The driver had apparently spoken to his wife on the phone about three suspicious people in his cab before he was shot, he said. Coutu did not know if it was the wife who called 9-1-1.