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Oumar Dia
18 Nov 1998
Denver, CO
Oumar Dia immigrated to the United States in 1995, leaving his native Senegal to provide a better life for his family. Three years later he was dead, shot at a downtown Denver bus stop by 19-year-old Nathan Thill.
"Do you know you're a nigger?" Thill asked as he leveled a pistol at Dia's chest. "Are you ready to die like a nigger?"
In a television interview just three days after the shooting, Thill said the murder was "an act of passion. In a war, everyone wearing an enemy uniform is an enemy and should be taken out."
Dia's uniform? The color of his skin. |