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	Balbir Singh Sodhi
		Balbir Singh Sodhi (1949 - September 15, 2001) was a Phoenix, Arizona gas station owner who was murdered in the aftermath of the September 11, 2001 attacks.
		He made headlines because his was the first of a total of eight murder cases across the United States that were reported to the police as acts of retaliation for the terrorist attacks.
		On September 30, 2003, Frank Roque, age 44, was convicted of first-degree murder in the Singh case.
	www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/balbir_singh_sodhi (325 words)

	Indian American Center for Political Awareness (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Frank Roque, 44, was found guilty of killing Balbir Singh Sodhi, a Sikh, as he stood outside his gas station in what prosecutors claimed was a shooting spree fueled by racism and sparked by the attacks on New York and Washington.
		Lakhwinder Singh Sodhi, the victim’s brother, said the verdict sent a clear message that hate crimes would not be tolerated in the United States.
		Balbir Singh Sodhi, 49, who came to the United States in 1988 from a small village in Punjab, was one of several Sikhs attacked in the U.S. in the wake of the Sept. 11 attacks after apparently being mistaken for possible supporters of Saudi-born militant Osama bin Laden.
	www.iacfpa.org /p_news/nit/iacpa-archieve/profiling/261604-top19.html (563 words)

	== Balbir Singh Sodhi Honored == (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The death of Balbir Singh Sodhi symbolizes the triumph of the Khalsa spirit.
		Balbir Singh was known by friends and neighbors as a quiet, gentle man. He practiced the Sikh values of Dharam di Kirat Karni and Vand Ke Chakna.
		The theme of the event is focused around Balbir Singh’s own message of peace, which he brought to the Guru Nanak Dwara just a few days before his death.
	www.sikhnet.com /s/BalbirSodhi (526 words)

	Revenge motive studied in Sikh's killing- The Times of India (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		frank roque, 42, was being held on $1 million bond for allegedly killing balbir singh sodhi, 49, in the parking lot of his chevron station in mesa, arizona, on saturday, said sgt. mike goulet, a city police spokesman.
		sodhi was originally from punjab, and he has been in the united states for about 10 years, family members told reporters.
		sodhi had been planning to return to india to be with his wife and a son there, according to arizona relatives.
	timesofindia.indiatimes.com /cms.dll/articleshow?msid=1551768943&prtpage=1 (489 words)

	AMERICAN NIGHTMARE / Sukhpal Singh Sodhi came to S.F. to help his village in India. Now, a year after his brother's ...
		San Francisco -- Sukhpal Singh Sodhi was one of 50 members of an extended family who had left India in recent years, finding refuge in the United States and sending back a small fortune to make life better in their village in Punjab state.
		Balbir Singh Sodhi, who started working as a cabdriver in San Francisco about a year after coming to this country in 1989, had opened a convenience store and gas station in Mesa in 2000.
		Sukhpal Singh Sodhi had spent nearly a decade driving a cab in San Francisco to support his wife, Parwinder, his grown son and two daughters, all of whom live in the family's village of Passiawal.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=chronicle/archive/2002/08/06/MN242769.DTL&type=printable (909 words)

	Harvard Gazette: Religious consciousness rises in U.S.
		Sodhi's death was one of the most widely publicized hate crimes in a wave that swept the country following Sept. 11.
		Sodhi, a Sikh who had immigrated from India 10 years before, was most likely killed because he wore the turban and long beard favored by many Sikhs.
		Sodhi was apparently killed for no other reason than because he was dark-skinned, bearded, and wore a turban.
	www.news.harvard.edu /gazette/2002/02.14/10-eck.html (873 words)

	SikhSpectrum.com Monthly. Turbans and Terror: Racism After September 11
		Balbir Singh Sodhi’s death became the first killing in the explosion of hate crimes that targeted Sikh, Muslim, Arab, Afghan, and South Asian American communities after September 11.
		The morning Balbir Singh was killed, he had bought pots of flowers from Costco and made a donation to the September 11 Relief Fund in the checkout line.
		The Phoenix community reached out to the Sodhi family and learned about Balbir Singh; that he had immigrated to escape religious persecution, that he wore a turban as an article of faith and spirituality, that this turban marked him for hate and death, that his widow’s heart is broken.
	www.sikhspectrum.com /102002/valerieb.htm (2238 words)

	Caught in the Backlash: Sukhpal & Balbir Singh Sodhi, San Francisco & Mesa, AZ (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Caught in the Backlash: Sukhpal and Balbir Singh Sodhi, San Francisco and Mesa, AZ "There was not a thing before September 11.
		Balbir, 51, was the oldest brother, “the person everybody went to.” On Sept. 14, he warned Lakhwinder not to go to work close to downtown Phoenix because he feared for his younger brother’s safety.
		Leaving Balbir drenched in a pool of blood, his assailant sped off, tires squealing, in a pickup truck.
	acluweb.best.vwh.net /911/backlash/sodhi.html (631 words)

	BC Sikh Youth - Sikhism, Sikh youth, Sikh Community, Sikhi Blog, Sikhs Canada: In Memory: Devinder Singh, Balbir Singh, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		On September 13, 2003, a Sikh cab driver, Devinder Singh, age 21, was shot and killed in an apparent hate crime.
		Less than a year after Balbir's death (August 4, 2002), his younger brother, Sukhpal Singh Sodhi, was shot to death in his taxicab in San Francisco, apparently by a stray bullet from a nearby gang fight.
		Amrik Singh Malhi, 38, who considered the two slain Sodhi siblings akin to his own brothers, was at the family home in Daly City to comfort Sukhpal's relatives.
	www.bcsikhyouth.com /2005/09/in-memory-devinder-singh-balbir-singh.html (665 words)

	Indian American Center for Political Awareness (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Sodhi, 49, who immigrated to the U.S. from Punjab in the 1980’s, was targeted because he wore a turban and was apparently mistaken for an Arab supporter of Saudi-born militant Osama bin Laden, believed to be involved in 9/11 attacks.
		“Balbir Singh Sodhi, a decent and a caring family man, was taken away because of his religious identity.
		Singh expressed gratitude to the Arizona Gov. Janet Napolitano and law enforcement officials who took clear and decisive measures to condemn the crime.
	www.iacfpa.org /p_news/nit/iacpa-archieve/profiling/261604-top17.html (420 words)

	Sodhi murder trial begins (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		In his opening statement on Wednesday, a US attorney argued that the man accused of shooting an Arizona-based Indian gas station owner, Balbir Singh Sodhi, four days after the September 11, 2001, attacks was acting out of rage and that his mental illness was to be blamed for his action.
		Whether Roque, 44, is convicted and sentenced to death in the six-week trial depends largely on whether the jurors believe he was insane when he pulled the trigger of a.380 semi-automatic handgun with deadly accuracy, hitting the Indian immigrant with all five shots.
		Sodhi immigrated from Punjab in 1989 and worked as a cabdriver in the Bay Area until he opened his Chevron station at 80th Street and University Drive in early 2001.
	www.rediff.com /us/2003/sep/03sodhi.htm (635 words)

	Emily Murphy's Blog - Emily Murphy web blogs, Emily Murphy blogger in India
		Balbir Singh Sodhi lost his life in what was later labeled a hate crime, and two years later the gas station owner's family and friends gathered at the scene of this death to remember the American, a native of India, for who he was and what his death has done to his community.
		Balbir's brother Rana and his family were in court almost every day of the nearly month-long trial, awaiting justice.
		Balbir had 10 siblings, (seven brothers and three sisters) children and a promise made to a wife.
	www.sulekha.com /expressions/articledesc.asp?cid=306886 (1246 words)

	October > Man Sentenced to Death in Post-September 11 Shooting \| NACS Online
		Sodhi had a beard and wore a turban, and law-enforcement officials think Roque mistook him for an Arab, reports CNN.com.
		Sodhi was one of several Sikhs thought to be of Arab descent and attacked following September 11.
		Roque's attorneys argued that he was mentally ill and that the attacks of September 11 drove him to commit the acts of racial violence, according to CNN.com.
	www.nacsnet.org /NACS/News/Daily_News_Archives/October2003/nd1011031.htm (234 words)

	Trial begins in alledged Sikh murder - Yellowworld Forums
		Sodhi immigrated from the Punjab region of India in 1989 and worked as a cab driver in the Bay Area until he opened his Chevron station at 80th Street and University Drive in early 2001.
		Singh Sodhi's last words were "don't kill me" before shots rang out and the victim collapsed, he said.
		The sister of a man accused of shooting to death an Indian immigrant in the wake of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks testified Thursday that her brother is delusional.
	www.yellowworld.org /forums/showthread.php?t=9211 (1567 words)

	Indiainfo.com -> News -> Spotlight -> America under attack -> US cops arrest one in Sikh murder case (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		New York: One man was on September 17 arrested in connection with the murder of Indian immigrant Balbir Singh Sodhi in Arizona on September 16, as Federal Bureau of Investigation’s (FBI) Hate Crimes Unit joined police investigating the killing.
		As Sodhi fell, the gunman drove to the other gas station and fired at a clerk of Lebanese descent who was working in the store attached to it.
		Both Sodhi and Saad, owner of the second gas station at which the gunman fired shots, had complained of some people hurling verbal abuses at them ever since terrorist bombings on September 17.
	newsarchives.indiainfo.com /spotlight/usattacks/17sikhs2.html (322 words)

	Donors aid slain Sikh's family (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Sodhi did not have life insurance and, while doling out smiles and candy to neighborhood children short on change, poured every dime he could into the store, Lakhwinder said.
		Sodhi was the father of five and grandfather of four.
		Sodhi is as much a victim as any of the people who died at the World Trade Center," said Coleen Niemann of the Mesa United Way.
	www.azcentral.com /specials/special44/articles/1221sikhshooting21.html (759 words)

	East Valley Tribune \| Daily Arizona news for Chandler, Gilbert, Tempe, Mesa, Scottsdale
		MEMORIAL: Gaurav Singh, a relative of Balbir Singh Sodhi, kneels by a memorial outside the Mesa Star Convenience store where Sodhi was shot and killed in September 2001.
		Balbir Singh Sodhi, a turbaned Sikh from India, was gunned down a week earlier while planting flowers outside his Mesa convenience store.
		Sodhi’s brother, Rana Sodhi, even is told to "go back to Iraq" while working at the same store where his brother was killed.
	www.eastvalleytribune.com /index.php?sty=48149 (1293 words)

	AsianWeek.com: Feature: Patriotism Gone Wrong
		Jesse Singh, wearing baseball cap, embraces Harjit Singh Sodhi at the scene where their brother, Balbir Singh Sodhi, an immigrant from India, was slain, Sept. 15, 2001, in Mesa, Ariz. Photos by The Associated Press.
		Sodhi was at the wrong place at the wrong time — facing a man who, by his own words, sought revenge against Muslims.
		Balbir Singh Sodhi died representing his faith with his traditional head wrap, and Guru Roop Kaur Khalsa, cleric at the Sikh temple in Phoenix, remembers Sodhi as a devout Sikh who hosted weekly dinners for fellow worshipers in Mesa.
	www.asianweek.com /2002_09_06/feature_mesa.html (1098 words)

	USATODAY.com - Man sentenced to death for killing Sikh (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Frank Silva Roque, convicted of murder last week in the death of gas station owner Balbir Singh Sodhi, was sentenced to die by injection by jurors who deliberated over two days.
		Sodhi wore a turban and beard as part of his Sikh faith.
		Sodhi's death on Sept. 15, 2001, touched off protests in India and prompted India's prime minister to call President Bush.
	www.usatoday.com /news/nation/2003-10-09-arizona-death-penalty_x.htm (366 words)

	Sodhi Most Recent Comments. Ranjeet Sodhi - Well, I Downloaded The Two Posted By Jaynita Sodhi In Cat (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Sodhi murder trial begins an Arizona-based Indian gas station owner, Balbir Singh Sodhi, four days after the September 11, 2001, attacks was.
		The family of Balbir Singh Sodhi, who was gunned down in Mesa, Arizona, on Saturday, in what is Harjit Sodhi, 40, said people of Middle Eastern and South Asian origin.
		Sodhi and K. Russell "Kinematic Synthesis of Adjustable Planar Four-Bar Mechanisms for Multi-Phase Russell and R. S Sodhi, "Kinematic Synthesis of Planar Five Bar Mechanisms.
	www.99hosted.com /names15985.html (440 words)

	Balbir Singh Sodhi - Memorial Service - El Sobrante, California (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Balbir was killed for no apparent reason other than the fact he was a turbaned Sikh.
		Nearly 3,000gathered on Saturday to mourn the death of Balbir Singh Sodhi with words of acceptance, compassion and unity.
		Balbir Singh Sodhi, the first person to be killed as a result of 9/11, in Mesa, Arizona hate crime was a focal point of the solemn ceremony.
	www.thesteward.net /ajmer/balbir.html (474 words)

	Press Release on the death of Mr. Balbir Singh in Mesa, Arizona (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Balbir Singh Sodhi, a member of the Indian-American community belonging to the Sikh faith.
		Sodhi died after he was shot on September 15, 2001 at his gas station in Mesa, Arizona.
		Sodhi’s death, Ambassador Lalit Mansingh spoke to White House authorities underlining the need to prevent any such crime against persons of Indian origin on the basis of mistaken identity.
	www.indianembassy.org /press_release/2001/sep/sep_17.htm (207 words)

	CNN.com - Trial begins for man charged with killing Sikh immigrant - Aug. 18, 2003
		Jesse Singh, wearing ball cap, embraces Harjit Singh Sodhi where their brother, Balbir Singh Sodhi, an immigrant from India, was slain Sept. 15, 2001, in Mesa, Arizona.
		Balbir Singh Sodhi was neither Muslim nor from the Middle East, as the terrorist hijackers had been.
		Balbir Sodhi had been outside his gas station when authorities say Roque drove up and shot him.
	www.cnn.com /2003/LAW/08/18/attacks.sikhshooting.ap (701 words)

	AsianWeek.com: National News: Upfront
		Kim Singh, director of AAPPI; Naomi Little, director of the S.F. Taxi Commission; and the nephew of Sukhpal Singh Sodhi and son of Balbir Singh Sodhi (left to right) gather in front of Sukhpal Singh Sodhi’s image at his memorial service.
		Sodhi was the brother of Balbir Singh Sodhi, one of the first fatal victims of the Sept. 11 backlash who was gunned down outside a Mesa, Ariz., gas station.
		Kim Singh, a member of the Asian American Public Policy Institute (AAPPI), is one of several community members who is trying to raise money for the family of Sukhpal Singh Sodhi.
	www.asianweek.com /2002_08_16/news_upfront.html (1080 words)

	Indiainfo.com -> NRI -> US citizen admits to shooting Sikh gas station owner
		Roque mistook Sodhi to be an Arab, because he had a beard and turban.
		Rana Singh Sodhi of Phoenix, one of the victim's brothers, said he is pleased Roque is admitting the slaying, but does not buy the defence.
		Roque, said Rana Singh Sodhi, acted with premeditation, visiting the gas station before Balbir Singh Sodhi was gunned down to make sure the victim was working.
	news.indiainfo.com /2003/06/18/18nri.html (338 words)

	Voices of September 11
		Balbir Singh’s niece and nephews told me about their uncle in an interview.
		The Phoenix community reached out to the Sodhi family and learned about Balbir Singh; that he had immigrated to escape religious persecution, that he wore a turban as an article of faith and spirituality, that this turban marked him for hate and death, that his widow’s heart is broken.
		When Balbir Singh Sodhi was killed in Arizona in the first post-September 11 hate crime, national news did not air his photograph, his face, his beard and turban, the reason he was killed.
	911prejudice.stanford.edu /editorial.htm (2977 words)

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