CALGARY – The Akram Jomaa Centre in northeast Calgary was packed Friday afternoon with mourners attending a service for Maqsood Ahmed.
Ahmed, a well-known businessman, owned the Calgary Produce Market, which also included a money transfer business.
He was attacked on Wednesday evening in the 4700 block of Westwinds Drive N.E.
According to police Ahmed was carrying a bag of money when he was jumped by at least two people.
The 55-year-old was with his son at the time of the attack. Police say Ahmed was pepper-sprayed then stabbed.
Hundreds of people attended the memorial service for Ahmed, a well respected member of Calgary’s Pakistani community.
Friends remembered him as a kind man and a successful business man.
MLA Manmeet Bhullar says the community is in shock.
“The amount of violence that was involved has just shocked the entire community, ” he said Friday. “Quite frankly it has a lot of people reflecting on the way they do things”.
Police are now looking for two suspects and a vehicle that was seen at the crime scene.
Investigators are still going through surveillance video taken at the time of the stabbing.
Ahmed is Calgary’s 28th homicide victim of 2014.
Comments