Jun 29, 2008 10:26 pm US/Pacific
SJ Peace March Honors Murdered Husband & Father
SAN JOSE (CBS 5 / BCN) ―
The family of a 47-year-old man who was gunned down in San Jose last month held a peace march and memorial at City Hall, where they vowed Sunday to find his killers.
Vahid Hosseini's wife, Lee Ann, said her husband was en route to make a $50,000 cash deposit for his check cashing business at the time of his murder on May 23.
Three suspects approached Hosseini in a bank parking lot, shot him in the back of the head, leaving him for dead, and fled in a gray or silver sport utility vehicle, police said.
Hosseini died in a hospital 11 days later.
"He was a great man. And for what? The money? He would've given them the money, but they just shot him instead," said Lee Ann Hosseini.
But the victim's family refuses to let the crime go unpunished.
"Don't be afraid to come forward, because these suspects are loaded guns in our community, and if these people fail to speak out, then it's their relatives, it's their father, their mother, their sister that's going to be the next victim," said the victim's daughter, Cassandra Hosseini.
She called the three men who killed her father "cowards who took away more than they could ever realize."
Hosseini was known in the largely Hispanic Washington neighborhood for learning Spanish to better serve his customers and for halting alcohol sales at his Willow Market.
No suspects have been arrested or identified in his murder, according to police.
Anyone with information about the fatal shooting was asked by authorities to call San Jose police detectives at (408) 277-5283. Those wishing to remain anonymous can call Crime Stoppers at (408) 947-STOP.
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