Minara Helen Eti: Local Cob County police have arrested a man accused of shooting dead a Bangladeshi businessman at his business in the US state of Georgia. Abu Saleh Mahfuz Ahmed, an expatriate Bangladeshi, was shot dead by miscreants at his own business on Tuesday night (June 14). Police arrested a Spanish citizen named Marcus (59) within 24 hours to arrest the accused.
The bomber struck shortly after noon in Auckworth, a village town about 50 miles north of Atlanta, Georgia. At the time, Abu Saleh Mahfuz Ahmed was working in a grocery store called Quickie Mart, his own business.
According to the relatives of the deceased Mahfuz, three miscreants entered the grocery store at around 9:30 pm and opened fire at random. They vandalized the store counter and looted all the dollars in the cash register. Mahfuz Ahmed was shot twice in the chest and died on the spot. After receiving a phone call from another customer in the shop, the police immediately rushed to the shop and found his body.
Citing eyewitnesses, police said they saw a man rushing out of the store in a blue Nissan sedan and fleeing after the incident. The man’s face was covered with a ski mask. According to him, the Cobb County Department of Police Fugitive Unit tracked down the Nissan car and arrested the driver, Marcus Bus (59), a Spanish immigrant. He was charged with murder, armed robbery, aggravated assault, aggravated battery and possession of a firearm while committing a crime, police said.
Abu Saleh Mahfuz Ahmed, a resident of Harinarayanpur in Maijdi in the greater Noakhali district, lived with his family in the Norcross area of Georgia. He immigrated to the United States in 2010. He is survived by his wife, an 8-year-old daughter and a 5-year-old son.
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