From: SULAYMAN BAJO <[log in to unmask]>

<[log in to unmask]> Date: Mon, 13 May 2002 22:57:26 -0700 The owner of a Walnut Hills variety store on Lincoln Avenue was shot to death shortly after 7:30 p.m. Saturday, police said. Cincinnati police were looking for a short male black suspect. The victim was described by his business partner, Patrick Orikara, 32, of Nigeria, as a 26-year-old immigrant from Gambia whom he knew only as Abraham. Carlos Smith, 26, of Walnut Hills, said he and a group of friends, including the dead man's cousin, were standing across the street from the store when the attacker chased the owner into the store. Mr. Orikara said he spoke to Abraham by phone about 3 p.m., who told him that a man was in the store demanding $50 that he claimed Mr. Orikara owed him. Mr. Orikara said he told Abraham to pay the man and he would drop by and reimburse him about 8 p.m. when he closed up his shop on McMillan Street. He said Abraham moved to Cincinnati five months ago from New York City, where he had relatives, and opened the Lincoln Avenue shop.