Mayor Adams and hundreds of Yemeni community members assembled to mourn 86-year-old Hamoud Saeidi, who was shot to death at random by a 25-year-old scooter rider.
Make your contribution now and help Gothamist thrive in 2023.Family, friends, Mayor Eric Adams and hundreds of Yemeni community members from Brooklyn and Queens assembled to mourn Monday as 86-year-old Hamoud Saeidi was laid to rest, two days after he was shot to death at random by a 25-year-old“This person did not kill my father only,” said an emotional Main Saeidi, one of Hamoud’s four sons, outside the Beit El-Maqdis Islamic Center in Bay Ridge. “He killed everybody in the community.
Hamoud Saeidi spent his last moments Saturday doing what he did every weekend: walking to the mosque from his home in Jamaica, Queens. Alleged gunman Thomas Abreu rolled up and shot Saeidi in the back, Police said Abreu also opened fire at a group of people on 134th Street and Jamaica Avenue, but no one was hit.
“Guns are the actual killers of innocent people," he said. "We don’t want them anymore. I appeal to all who basically handle the laws in this city and in our country, take away guns from us, please.”
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