Mon Rai, 30, a Bhutanese man, was building a new life in St. Louis, Missouri—working overnight shifts as a clerk at a 7-Eleven while trying to steady his family’s footing in a city that still felt unfamiliar. He had arrived in St. Louis only months earlier through local resettlement efforts, after years shaped by displacement, and friends said he talked often about the future he was trying to carve out—especially the baby his wife was expected to deliver any day.
Just after midnigh
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