Updated: 6:36 pm (WATCH VIDEO BELOW)
WJLA/ABC 7 News
Mon September 29, 2008
WASHINGTON – A popular restaurant manager shot by a longtime friend Sunday night says he has no idea what provoked the attack, according to another of the victim’s friends.
According to witnesses, the gunman entered Meskerem Ethiopian restaurant as usual and greeted the manager, Mahaba Mohamed, with a hug. Everything seemed normal between the longtime friends, according to people who knew them.
“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.
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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I pray for the soul of the dead and for the victim to make it through. This is the devil’s work.
I also pray for both families who are grieving.
You never know what is going on in ones mind to drive one to a breaking point that would provoke them to takes another’s life. I pray for both the victim and the decease my GOD forgive him.