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USA : A Moroccan national killed by a bullet in Chicago

Hamza Hammouis and his wife Jennifer Hess. / Ph. Chicago Tribune
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A Moroccan-French man was shot dead by a bullet in the head last Monday around 2:45 am, near his home in Evanston, a suburb of Chicago, Chicago Tribune reported on Friday.

According to the same source of Hamza Hammouis was 25 years old and was born in Paris. He has just married and moved to Chicago less than a month ago to join his wife, Jennifer Hess, a 24-year-old American.

«Hamza Hammouis had stepped out with his wife and sister Monday, intending to snap early-morning photos of the city he newly called home when he encountered a man on Howard Street in Evanston. About 2:45 a.m., police said, the man shot and killed the new immigrant for an as-yet mysterious reason», states Chicago tribune.

The Maghrib Association of North America, an NGO that helps new Muslim immigrants arriving to Chicago from North Africa is currently raising funds to send the Hamza's body to Morocco where he is supposed to buried.

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