Saleem Sammy Erakat, a 53-year-old Jordanian Arab immigrant, was tragically murdered on November 25, 1973, in San Francisco, California. Erakat owned a small grocery store on Larkin Street, where he was shot and killed by J.C. Simon, a member of a group known as the Zebra Killers. This group, composed of black Muslims who followed the Nation of Islam, believed they had to "destroy the enemy" and "kill devils," which they interpreted as white people. Although Erakat was not white, Simon perceived
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