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Balbir Singh Sodhi
15 Sep 2001
Mesa, AZ
Immediately after the September 11th attacks, Balbir Singh Sodhi, who ran a local Chevron station, went shopping for an American flag to demonstrate his support for the United States.
Four days later, he was shot and killed while tending to the grass in front of his store. Frank Roque, his killer, said that Sodhi looked like a terrorist and boasted that he had murdered a "towel head."
"My father had a lot of friends, but no enemies," Balbir's son Sukhwinder Singh said later. "The word hatred was not in his vocabulary at all, but he ended up falling from the bullet of hate." |