Posted on 07/20/2018 11:45:17 AM PDT by Red Badger
The father of two Parkland school shooting survivors was fatally shot at his own North Lauderdale convenience store during a robbery, according to the Broward County Sheriff's Office.
Ayub Ali, a father of four, died Tuesday. Just five months prior, his son and daughter survived the mass shooting that killed 17 and injured 17 others at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.
According to a BSO report, Lauderdale Lakes BSO deputies and Tamarac Fire Rescue paramedics found the injured 61-year-old store clerk when they arrived at Aunt Molly's Food Store, located at 1691 S. State Road. Ali was transported to Fort Lauderdale's Broward Health Medical Center where he was pronounced dead.
The suspect forced Ali to his store's back office, where he was shot.
"He took money from the cash register and left. The thief returned shortly after and shot Ali," BSO said in a statement. "The suspect wore a black vest, reddish-orange shorts with a black and white stripe on the sides, reddish-orange slides and a skull cap with 'Miami' stitched on the front."
The convenience store reopened Thursday and loyal customers placed a makeshift memorial for Ali, who was born in Bangladesh.
Parkland's Bangladeshi community has stepped up to support Ali's widow and children. On Feb. 14, Ali's daughter was in a classroom in MSD's 1200 building, where the massacre occurred, according to a family friend. One of his sons also was at the school.
"This is the biggest part that hurts me. They have to be without their dad for the rest of their life," Ali's friend Alex Rios told NBC 6.
Anyone with information is urged to contact BSO homicide detective James Hayes at 954-321-4231 or Broward County Crime Stoppers at 954-493-8477. Anonymous tips that lead to an arrest are eligible for a reward of up to $3,000.
Doubtful. But it doesn’t matter.
Make it plain and obvious what you’re looking for. Immediately.
When there’s no description, yes, most know the description.
But still SAY IT.
[What are slides?]
Don’t know. I don’t think I own them, though.
“The suspect wore a black vest....”
So what was HIS color?
Did David Hogg ride his bike to the crime scene?
He limped over to a bush he could hide behind and watch to see if the police got the guy. So frightening, then it was over.
He is preparing his speech about how we as a society have failed “to do something about all the guns around us.” It will be on all networks and foreign news services shortly.
Oddly enough, looks like he has been described up-thread.
I was thinking a Norwegian with red hair.
I guess I was wrong.
Yes, we got the color of his shorts. Most important, what was the color of his skin?
Maybe he was
N Laud. Its a no brainer
See video.......................
Graduated in 2016
“So, apparently it is NOT this guy.”
Yeah, I spoke too soon. Should have watched the video before commenting.
Good ID of the per.
Should be picked up soon
So are all Parkland students considered survivors, or just the ones who recovered from wounds? Kind of tired of hearing “survivors”, like Hogg, who wasn’t even there when it happened.
I’ll have to watch the video.
Hope they grab him quick before there are any more victims. If there aren’t already.
You know, of course, that we on FR judge a man by the content of his character rather than the color of his skin.
Actually that doesn’t even help his case. He is already a worthless waste of oxygen that others should be breathing and a poster child for the death penalty which should be on the ballot in all fifty states.
To pay for him with $50,000 a year or whatever it costs to keep him alive is a terrible waste of tax money.
In prison he can watch TV for hours, tap a computer, talk to a tax-paid lawyer, pump iron and do circuit training to hit people and cops harder when he gets out on parole, and generally relax all day at our expense. Very few stay in prison for their original trial determined sentence. Good deal.
I hope I made amends for my first line above.
We need the death penalty on the books in all 50 states.
Well, they were on the rolls.................
“As usual with the press, including no description of the killers amounts to a description. Video simply confirms the obvious.”
Skull cap.
“I hope I made amends for my first line above.”
Yes you did. But I believe in that first line too. That said, “experience” dictates that one ask the question about the “ethnicity’ of the killer, because we still need the statistics that flow out of the criminal elements of our society. I know that in some quarters it’s viewed as “unfair,” but the cops sphincters tighten when they go into areas where “minorities” are the majority for reasons of self-preservation. Citizens should be afforded that same “situational awareness!”
Being a convenience store clerk or a gas station attendant are hazardous places to work today.
“N Laud. Its a no brainer”
Not a good place to run a convenience store?
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