If Narmeen Farah could say one thing to her brother, she would let him know he is her family’s hero and things haven’t been the same since he died.
Every morning she wakes up looking at his picture. Every morning before she goes to bed, she looks at his picture.
“My brother was kind, loving, good-hearted,” she said. “He just wanted the best for everybody.”
23-year-old Peter Farah died in April 2009 while working as a clerk at the Dayton Market on Dupont Street in Flint. Police say two young men shot him for a few hundred dollars.
Farah’s dad says the Powers High School grad wanted to be an engineer, and was trying to work his way through college.
Workers at the Dayton market say there are no words to express the loss of a promising young man’s life. An article written about his death is taped on a wall next to the cash register. They look at it with every transaction.
Jurors will resume deliberations Thursday morning in the trial of two men accused of killing Farah. Cedric Beck and Eric Hopson face up to life in prison if convicted of armed robbery and first degree murder charges.
Narmeen Farah and her family say they are not only suffering through their own loss, but find themselves feeling empathy for the defendants. She says she can’t help but think if Beck and Hopson had better lives, perhaps Peter would still be alive.
“I feel for both of them. One of them had no family there,” she said referring to the trial.
While she has closely followed the trial, she says its end, no matter the outcome, will not bring her or her family closure.
“Two people getting convicted doesn’t bring my brother back.”
In the meantime she is trying to keep her brother’s memory alive, pleading that the community do all it can to stop violence. She says as long as violence continues, there is no justice for her brother.
