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Interpreter who served with US forces in Afghanistan, fled Taliban takeover is shot dead while driving Lyft in DC
NY Post ^ | July 6, 2023 | Patrick Riley

Posted on 07/07/2023 8:17:58 AM PDT by rod5591

A father of four who had served as an interpreter alongside US special forces in Afghanistan and escaped after the Taliban takeover was gunned down while working as a Lyft driver in Washington, DC, early Monday.

Nasrat Ahmad Yar, 31, decided to work a few extra hours for the rideshare service, despite his wife’s protests that night, telling her they needed money for the rent, a friend told WUSA9.

He was shot and killed in his car a short time later after they spoke.

Shortly after midnight on Monday, DC Metro police found Ahmad Yar with a single gunshot wound close to his car on 11th Street Northeast. He was taken to a local hospital, where he was pronounced dead, police told the station.

The shooting was captured on security camera footage, obtained by WUSA9.

In the clip, a single gunshot can be heard and then four "young men" are seen running down an alleyway.

“You killed him! He was about to get out,” one of them says. Another responds, “He was reaching, bro.”

Yar and his family had first settled in Philadelphia, but, after being robbed at gunpoint, moved to Alexandria, Virginia, where he thought he and his family would be safer, less than a year ago, his friend Jeramie Malone said.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: banglist; crime; dc; lyft; murder; murdercapital
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Sad reflection that living and working in a Democrat-run city is more dangerous than living in Afghanistan! Too many of the "youths" there are a permanent criminal class.
1 posted on 07/07/2023 8:17:58 AM PDT by rod5591
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To: rod5591

A real “interpreter” as opposed to the millions who came here claiming to be “interpreters”.


2 posted on 07/07/2023 8:18:56 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: rod5591

“young men” aka “youths” aka “teens” aka “Amish”.


3 posted on 07/07/2023 8:19:27 AM PDT by NohSpinZone (First thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers)
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To: rod5591

“young men” aka “youths” aka “teens” aka “Amish”.


4 posted on 07/07/2023 8:19:27 AM PDT by NohSpinZone (First thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers)
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To: rod5591

And then there are the Politicians.


5 posted on 07/07/2023 8:19:42 AM PDT by sport
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To: rod5591

I recall another interpreter being shot in New York or some other Dem control city.


6 posted on 07/07/2023 8:20:41 AM PDT by DEPcom (DC is not my Capitol after Jan 6th lock downs.)
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And those sh*theads in DC have “common sense, gun control.” IT’S NOT THE GUNS, AZZHOS!


7 posted on 07/07/2023 8:23:23 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (A man in NM is killed over a movie theater seat. The azhos in The Swamp think guns are the problem. )
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To: rod5591

The front line criminals in Washington D.C. are the local politicians. They are inviting vigilanties to do what they are failing to do.


8 posted on 07/07/2023 8:23:50 AM PDT by Wuli
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Annoyers


9 posted on 07/07/2023 8:27:01 AM PDT by gathersnomoss (It's The Clown Show.)
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Interesting that 11th Street Northeast in D.C. apparently has better security cameras than the White House...


10 posted on 07/07/2023 8:27:26 AM PDT by hanamizu
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OK, obvious question, Does that make Washington, DC more dangerous than Afghanistan?

Follow up.... will Biden and his ilk exit Washington, DC like they did to Afghanistan?

11 posted on 07/07/2023 8:36:09 AM PDT by Lockbox (politicians, they all seemed like game show hosts to me.... Sting)
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To: rod5591

Shot probably by design.


12 posted on 07/07/2023 8:38:15 AM PDT by tennmountainman (FUJB)
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From Afghanistan war zone to the DC suburbs.
Definitely not an improvement.


13 posted on 07/07/2023 8:39:07 AM PDT by Delta 21 (MAGA Republican is my pronoun.)
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We’re suppposed to be “proud” of “America”?


14 posted on 07/07/2023 8:42:11 AM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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At least you could be armed and shoot back in Afghanistan.8


15 posted on 07/07/2023 8:44:23 AM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: Delta 21
From Afghanistan war zone to the DC suburbs.

He was shot on the 11th Street Northeast.

16 posted on 07/07/2023 8:48:47 AM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: rod5591

The mass media is an accomplice in these cases—by refusing to identify the race of the perps they are hiding the problem and leaving potential victims unprepared.


17 posted on 07/07/2023 8:52:44 AM PDT by cgbg (Claiming that laws and regs that limit “hate speech” stop freedom of speech is “hate speech”.)
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Just a damn shame. Find these youths and prosecute and sentence them... to life.
18 posted on 07/07/2023 8:56:22 AM PDT by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized of man.)
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A real “interpreter” as opposed to the millions who came here claiming to be “interpreters”.

How do you know that he was one of the real interpreters? Because some reporter said so?

19 posted on 07/07/2023 8:59:17 AM PDT by Angelino97
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At least you could be armed and shoot back in Afghanistan.

Yes, and all of us should be allowed to carry armed in DC, this legal immigrant--Green Card or Citizen?--might still be alive if he could have been armed for self-defense.

20 posted on 07/07/2023 9:06:38 AM PDT by Reno89519 (DeSantis 2024. Successful Governor, Honorable Veteran, Respectful, Respected.)
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