A violent confrontation at Jayne Park on the Detroit-Hamtramck border left one man dead and three others injured on May 25. The family of 24-year-old Abdul Ahad is now seeking answers and justice after he was fatally shot while reportedly attempting to mediate the dispute.
Family and friends describe Ahad as a community leader and mediator who knew everyone within the local Bangladesh community. Its why he apparently went with a friend to Jayne Park that night to help settle a dispute over a fender bender.
"Very minor car accident and it wasnt even that day; it was a couple weeks back and it wasnt even his accident. He had just went to talk to them and settle dispute," Ahad's close friend MD Hussain said. For that to lead to what it led to, is just really shocking, unbelievable.
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