Brooklyn Yemeni Community Takes Killing Hard
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Ahmed Shaibi arrived in Brooklyn 15 years ago from the dusty town of Shaeb in Yemen — a place where there the roads are unpaved and most families make their living tilling the earth. Jobs were hard to find, and his father was making a decent living in New York, so the trip west was a way to provide for his two small children and wife, relatives said.
That dream came to a close late Sunday night when a man wearing a hooded sweatshirt shot him at point blank range in the head during a robbery, killing him instantly.
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