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Jiabin Lin, an immigrant from China, was killed during a food delivery in Bridgeport, Connecticut on March 5, 2023.
The killer, a 17-year-old, reportedly shot Lin multiple times in the back. A GoFundMe was
to send his body back to China for burial.
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Kon Fung, an immigrant from Hong Kong, was murdered during a robbery while driving for Uber on July 17, 2022. ABC7 News reported that Fung was getting in his vehicle when two men in downtown Oakland, Calif., ambushed him and
within five seconds, Fung was killed. Police later
two suspects, one of whom is a juvenile.
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Sueng Choi, a 67-year-old immigrant from Korea, was murdered on March 3, 2023, when a gunman robbed his deli on the Upper East Side in New York City. Choi's suspected killer, Kimond Cyrus, is wanted in
with other robberies across the city.
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Mohammad Anwar, a Pakistani immigrant and driver for Uber Eats, was killed during an attempted carjacking in Washington D.C., on March 23, 2021. Video
by a bystander shows two teen girls seizing Anwar's car, driving it away while dragging his body.
After crashing the vehicle, one of the girls steps over Anwar’s mangled body, screaming, “Where’s my phone?”
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Ahmad Fawad Yusufi, an Afghan refugee who was driving for Uber and Lyft, was sleeping in his car after a long day of work next to James Rolph Jr. park in San Francisco when he was
during an attempted robbery on Nov. 28, 2021.
Yusufi’s murderer was by a federal judge earlier that year over a claim that San Francisco police had used an unlawful search of his vehicle.
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Abu Sala Miah, also known as Salauddin Bablu, a 51-year-old who fled political persecution in Bangladesh, was stabbed to death over the weekend of October 16, 2021. Sala was a delivery worker for GrubHub who worked 10-12 hour days to support his wife and two children in Bangladesh. The suspects in his slaying attempted to steal his e-bike and reportedly stabbed him in the face and stomach.
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Esam Musleh and his 1-year-old daughter
Alia Musleh were
burned to death in Oakland, Calif. on April 19, 2021. Musleh, a cashier at the Booker's Liquor store, was reportedly followed home by gang members who mistakenly targeted him as part of a retaliatory attack on a rival gang. The assailants set fire to the liquor store and to Musleh’s home. He came to the U.S. to escape the war in Yemen. "We run from Yemen because of the war,"
Mohammed Alsamma, a cousin of Musleh, speaking to reporters after his death. "We thought we are safe here, but death followed us to this place."
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Cherno Ceesay, a 28-year-old immigrant from Gambia and Uber driver, was stabbed to death by passengers attempting to steal his car on December 13, 2020, in Issaquah, Washington. The car crashed and the passengers
stole his phone.
