His children were the most important thing to him, and he brought them here so he could be safe.”Īccording to two people who knew Ahmadyar in Afghanistan, he had started working at the Bagram air base in Kabul when he was 10 or 11, the Washington Post reported. “Leaving the house was very dangerous for him, but he was always eager to help somebody else who is a good guy. “I can’t emphasize enough how he was always helping,” said his friend Jeramie Malone said.
I have to work,” said Rahim Amini, Ahmadyar’s best friend, to WUSA 9. “His wife asked him to stay home but he said, ‘I have to pay rent. On the night Ahmadyar was killed, he told his wife he had to work because the rent was due.
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Relatives and friends of Ahmadyar say he was first a tow-truck driver and then a rideshare driver, and often drove up to 12 hours a day to provide for his family. Authorities have offered $25,000 for information that leads to an arrest, CNN reported. In the video, it appears one of the suspects is telling the other they killed Ahmadyar. Police are currently looking for four suspects seen on surveillance video. He was taken to hospital, but pronounced dead “after all life-saving efforts failed”, said police, NBC News reported. He was the sole provider for his family.Īhmadyar was discovered in his vehicle after midnight on Monday with a single gunshot wound, according to police. But after experiencing violence in Philadelphia, the family moved to Alexandria, Virginia, a few months ago “in pursuit of a better life”, according to a Facebook page raising funds for Ahmadyar’s funeral expenses. Ahmadyar had immigrated to Pennsylvania with his wife and their four children, aged between 15 months and 13.
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