Abdul Karim Alwarrak, 47, was found dead inside his store, Karim’s Food Mart at 2053 Raleigh Road in Rocky Mount, North Carolina, on the morning of May 19, 2011. Police were called just before 1 a.m. for a robbery and an unresponsive man; officers treated the discovery as a homicide and sent his body to the medical examiner for an official cause of death.

Alwarrak was of Middle Eastern descent and left eight children who lived with their mother in another country; friends said he had received pictures of a 7-month-old from his wife the night before he was killed. Detectives said suspects may have been driving a green or dark-colored minivan. Investigators noted similarities between this killing and the shooting death two months earlier of 47-year-old Rafiq Salim Soufan, known as Sammy, found outside Sammy’s Food Mart, but no concrete link has been made.

No arrests have been announced and the case remains unsolved. Did anyone in the area see a green or dark-colored minivan near Karim’s Food Mart around May 19, 2011?