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Mohamed Hamwi

Case from Queens, NY dated Mar 11, 2014

Victim Details

Mohamed Hamwi

Male

Queens

NY

2014-03-11

48

Mohamed

Hamwi

07/23/2026

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In the quiet, early hours of a Tuesday morning in March 2014, the life of 48-year-old Mohamed Hamwi was abruptly ended just steps from his Queens home. An IT specialist of Syrian heritage, Hamwi was walking home from the Jamaica Long Island Rail Road station after a late shift at his job with a financial analytics firm in Manhattan. It was a routine he followed often, but on this night, the familiar path turned into a scene of violence. Shortly after midnight on March 11, the sound of gunshots p ...
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  • NY Daily News: Gun in preteen sister shooting killed before
  • NY Daily News: Systems analyst, 48, shot dead in Queens: cops
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