Following up on Matt Davis’s City of Arrivals, on the immigrant experience in Philadelphia, and this story about a Malian couple gunned down in their store in July… this is in today’s Inquirer:
Yesterday morning, almost exactly seven years to the day that Fakhur Uddin came to America from Bangladesh, he was slain – bound with duct tape and string, shot in the head, and left in the back room of the East Germantown gift and sundry store he was minding for his ailing father.
The 20-year-old accounting student at Community College of Philadelphia had just opened the small, cluttered shop at 5711 Germantown Ave., a busy commercial strip near Chelten Avenue, when he was attacked, police said.
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