The father of two Parkland school shooting survivors is shot and killed during a robbery
Source: CNN
A shooting in February scarred Elama Ali. Another this month took her father's life.
When an armed teen burst into Marjory Stoneman Douglas High, moving through the school and mowing down students and teachers, Elama took cover. Seventeen people were killed, but she -- and her brother -- survived the Valentine's Day massacre in Parkland, Florida.
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This week, the violence that turned Elama and her friends into activists for gun reform visited again. And this time, it claimed her father.
Ayub Ali was shot and killed Tuesday in a robbery at his convenience store.
Ayub Ali was 61 when he died. He came to the United States from Bangladesh in the late 1990s, and moved to Parkland just last year -- the same year it was named Florida's safest city.
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"The reason we moved to Parkland was because he liked the school," Elama told CNN on Friday. "I didn't want to move here. But he told us, 'We are only moving because the school is amazing.'"
Ali was the owner of Aunt Molly's Food Store, tucked in between several other shops in North Lauderdale -- about 10 miles from his house.
Tuesday afternoon, a man entered the store, held Ali at gunpoint, took money from the cash register and left. But shortly afterward, deputies say, the gunman returned and fatally shot him.
Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2018/07/20/health/father-parkland-survivors-shot-and-killed-trnd/index.html
OMG. Such tragedy in that family, for those kids.
braddy
(3,585 posts)Igel
(35,274 posts)But it might just be witness elimination. Forming any kind of opinion would depend on knowing more than I'm willing to read at present.
Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)is at a level I've not seen before.
braddy
(3,585 posts)be hate crimes, that was what led many stores and clerks to choose to shoot it out rather than to be marched into the cooler.
Devil Child
(2,728 posts)Even left then returned to the scene of the robbery to kill Mr. Ali.
https://www.sheriff.org/PIO/News/Pages/DETECTIVES-RELEASE-VIDEO--IN-FATAL-NORTH-LAUDERDALE-ROBBERY.aspx
braddy
(3,585 posts)Devil Child
(2,728 posts)Looks like Mr. Ali did everything to keep the situation calm, he complied, and yet he was still murdered. Curious that the murderer made no effort to conceal himself.
RhodeIslandOne
(5,042 posts)People on drugs aren't known for their criminal brilliance, considering he was already on video.
braddy
(3,585 posts)Stonepounder
(4,033 posts)Oh, and the entire GOP!
Tipperary
(6,930 posts)But who knows.
DemKittyNC
(743 posts)I cannot begin to express my sorrow for the family.
turbinetree
(24,683 posts)you have fucking blood on your NRA comprised hands and your gun rights laws in your fucked up state........................this is just fucked up...................
Is there a GofundMe Fund for this family.................this is just horrible................
Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)I just don't know what the kids do, now. He was working his a*s off so his kids would have a good life. It breaks my heart.
turbinetree
(24,683 posts)csziggy
(34,131 posts)From the CNN article linked in the OP:
"If you came for the money, take the money and go," she said. "Why did you have to kill my husband?"
Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)ffr
(22,665 posts)colorado_ufo
(5,730 posts)May they find some peace.
Glimmer of Hope
(5,823 posts)sheshe2
(83,654 posts)Not in tRumpworld.
cp
(6,617 posts)beachbum bob
(10,437 posts)RhodeIslandOne
(5,042 posts)LeftInTX
(25,126 posts)I doubt this guy follows the Parkland kids much less knows one of their father's.
pazzyanne
(6,543 posts)"On Friday, the students, their two younger siblings and their mother, Farhana, will stand by the grave of Mr. Ali, a 61-year-old grocery store owner who was shot dead in a robbery in North Lauderdale this week. Members of the areas Bangladeshi community will say prayers. His coffin will be lowered into the ground."
My heart goes out to the family. To lose a father to gun violence after two of their children survived the Parkland Valentine Day Massacre is simply horrible. May people in their community reach out to them to provide the comfort they are going to need.
Sympathy to the family.
MontanaMama
(23,295 posts)brachism
(82 posts)Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)That bastard. Senseless. That thug of a bastard. Slimeball who doesn't work and steals from that man who's workin' his a*s off to give his kids a better life.
That gets me spittin' mad.
FM123
(10,053 posts)heaven05
(18,124 posts)they catch this individual. period.
Tipperary
(6,930 posts)A 19 year old waste of space.
montana_hazeleyes
(3,424 posts)briv1016
(1,570 posts)Still sad though.