A popular restaurant manager shot by a longtime friend Sunday night says he has no idea what provoked the attack.
According to witnesses, the gunman entered Meskerem Ethiopian restaurant as usual and greeted the manager, Muhaba Mohamed, with a hug. Everything seemed normal between the longtime friends, according to people who knew them.
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“I know both of them, they grow up together, they’re like one family,” said Rezene Sium, a friend of Mohamed’s.
Sium said he was outside at the time of the shooting, but witnesses told him there was no provocation. At some point, the gunman drew the pistol and fired one shot in Mohamed’s neck. After shooting Mohamed, the man fired two shots in the air and then shot himself in the head, police and witnesses said.
Several people at the bar attempted to stop the gunman, but the efforts were unsuccessful, according to Graham.
Sium says he’s talked to the wounded restaurant manager who is recovering at Howard University Hospital. Sium said he talked to Mohamed, who has no idea why his friend shot him.
D.C. police say they have no plans to close the restaurant or suspend its liquor license because it has no history of violence.
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It has to be something that made this guy to act or trigger his hand gun and shoot one of his best friend, hope the truth comes out soon…
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September 30th, 2008 at 8:18 AM
Is this one of those incidences that tells me the beginning of mob activity in the Ethiopian community in the USA? If that is the case, it is all about ‘gim le gim, abreh azgm’. I hope that is not the case here.
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September 30th, 2008 at 11:05 AM
If the shooting were non-weyane ethiopian, all i got to say is my gash and may god bring the love, and respct among ethiopians rather than a conflict among each other.
I can not wait the day that we chase and shoot the weyane criminal groups every where, and may god bring that day for ethiopians….
Peace to all non weyane ethiopians….
May all Death come the criminal group and supporeters of racist weyane…
Death to all members and supporerters of weyane
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September 30th, 2008 at 2:52 PM
It is unfortunate; I agree with DC police this isolated incident. I have known Muhaba for over twenty years and his personality can be summed up in three words, man of peace.
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October 2nd, 2008 at 3:53 PM