Murder Of Balbir Singh Sodhi
Balbir Singh Sodhi (1949 – September 15, 2001), a gas station owner in Mesa, Arizona, was murdered in the aftermath of the September 11 attacks in the first of several cases across the United States that were reported to the police as acts of retaliation for the terrorist attacks.
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