Community Mourns Beloved Detroit Business Owner
DETROIT (WWJ) - "Heartbreaking": That's how one mourner describes the death of a longtime Detroit party store owner, murdered as he prepared to open for business earlier this week.
"He was a great father, a great husband. He served a community in Detroit and we've got to do something to stop these senseless acts of violence," the man said.
Friends, neighbors and family streamed into a Southfield Funeral Home Thursday evening to pay their final respects to 63-year-old Faraj "Fred" Dally.
Residents of Daily's northwest Detroit neighborhood called him a local hero, who stayed long after other businesses had left the area and often offered help to customers who needed it.
Chaldean American Chamber of Commerce President Martin Manna was a friend of Dally.
"I think it's a big loss for this entire region, really," said Manna. "The kind of people that are serving others ... and for him to be killed like that, senselessly, makes no sense to anybody."
Dally was a past chairman of the Association of Food and Petroleum Dealers.
A reward of $50,000 is being offered for information leading to an arrest in the case.
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