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Babul Kumer Saha, 41, was shot dead during a robbery at the Prime Station gas station in Maple Heights, Ohio, on April 8, 2014. The attack happened just before 11:00 p.m., when a gunman entered the convenience store and shot Saha in the head at close range. Surveillance footage captured the suspect taking money from the register; a customer later found Saha passed out behind the counter and called police. He was pronounced dead at MetroHealth Medical Center.
Saha had moved to the United States from Bangladesh less than two years earlier and left behind a wife and two young children, ages four and six months. Investigators recovered a plastic bag touched by the shooter and used DNA analysis including TrueAllele technology on a complex mixture; that analysis produced a match statistic linking Slater Howell III to the evidence. Howell was later arrested, convicted of Saha’s murder, and sentenced to life in prison.
Does anyone have memories of Saha or information about the store and neighborhood in Maple Heights that could add context to what happened that night?