alhamdulillah Alum peace be with you I'm
Ed your host you're watching the dean
show and we're here at our future home a
home that awaits us all from the womb
and then to the
tomb and in between it's what we do in
this life that's going to determine if
we're going to be successful in the next
life or
not so the young man who's in his grave
his life was taken he was murdered
and in this episode of the dean show
we're going to find out why what
happened how did this 19-year-old
boy who was a undefeated wrestler who
was young strong athletic good
family and at the blink of an eye his
life his whole life changed and now he's
in the grave his life is
finished so stay tuned when we come back
we're going to find out why what
happened and how you can get involved to
help police track down the criminal that
did this and bring him to Justice we'll
be right back with Samir Bara story here
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the the alhamdulillah Alum peace be with
you greetings of peace to everybody all
around the world who's tuning into the
de show we started off we took you to a
scene at the graveyard and we had
expressed that this is a home that all
of us one day tomorrow today in a year
in a second we can end up in and we want
to make the best out of this life before
we visit our future home the grave but a
young man's life sadly was taken away 19
years old and this young man was your
son I'm here with with our brother your
brother Baraka how are you sir
alhamdulillah
alaykum thank you for finding the
courage you know the energy to be with
us you know uh here on the dean show
thank you you're welcome we really
thought it'd be really important to
create awareness so we can get our
brothers and sisters from all around the
globe and people are tuning in to the
dean show from all over and some if this
just goes away people will forget so now
we're going to have people from all over
making Dua for your family and inshallah
this culprit the criminal will get
brought to Justice and the police will
inshallah get some tips that we can you
know um have this individual in jail so
he's not out there hurting killing
another innocent human being so tell us
now you were coming from tell us what
happened me and my two sons was
basically coming from a night out you
know as we was
bonding
we telling stories telling jokes and so
on and we make it home we come through
this way the
alley and the guy felt that to ask us
questions are we in the G are we Latin
King and repeatedly three times we said
no no and we don't G Bang
and he said yall better dip and start
shooting at
us I was able to push one of my kids to
the side behind the
dumpster
and take the other one and put him in
front of me but yeah after the fourth
shot I think he was shot at the fourth
shot and dropped on the
floor and there was one more shot after
that you mentioned when we spoke
yesterday that you had gotten home you
you you were um you know we're fasting
this Ramadan so uh people know that we
we um begin our day before the break of
dawn eat a little bit and then we don't
eat that's what he was saying as we was
right there he he looked at his watch
and his his last words
was he we have enough time to
do to beat me in a video game and do fer
and go to sleep
that was his last words so you guys he
didn't say nothing to the guy as he was
talking me and my son Sammy the one that
was responding to him that we're not
gang members
we basically we will say no we not we're
not in the game your sons don't have
anything to do with a game my son is
sweetheart he's
athletic he's uh he achieved blacks and
medals in football blacks and medals in
wrestling black and medals in uh tracks
fourth and sixth place in tracks first
and second place on Chicago and
wrestling and football they used to call
him Julius Pepper that's how good he was
yeah in football so you you had gotten
to the front I remember you mentioned
you gotten to the front of your house to
the front and then you ended up coming
around because you just wanted to kill
some more time to come around what was
it we were just didn't finish the jokes
that we was telling each other and the
stories father and son's bonding so you
wanted some more bonding time exactly
yeah so we we was thinking that we can
use another couple of minutes so we can
finish the stories we tell and the jokes
and he tells good jokes yeah he is type
of person that anybody that met him
within three four sentence he'll tell
you a joke or a joke of something that
he did he'll make you laugh so you with
your two sons you're walking down this
alley okay you guys get the shot you're
walking down this alley it's family time
you're spending time with your family
your two sons and now you guys are
heading towards the back door okay 2
away 25 ft away okay and then you hear
this individual now the criminal who
shot your son he yells what did he yell
out hey are y'all Kings now what's this
Kings I mean what is that that's a gang
that's basically dominating this
neighborhood is three gangs uh and two
more gangs trying to move in or they
already in okay there's Kings there is
uh KY boys so these we'll say I mean
these are people that are striking
Terror in the neighborhood innocent
people are trying to get to work you
know live their lives productive
citizens so these people come and are
starting to strike Terror into the
people such as you don't know if he's
the king or if he's from the other gang
because he's asking us are you king and
we're saying no and he's still shot so
so you clearly told him him look we have
nothing to do with any gangs or any
affiliation with any gangs we didn't
have that long of a conversation yeah I
just said no the second question he
asked the second time my son says no we
don't gang bang the third question I
looked I was like no man and that's when
he pulled the gun you said something
about he said you better dip dip you
better dip that's like slang for run run
and then the shots rang out yes and then
you end up now we see over here you can
see take the camera to have a look over
here we have the pool of blood so is
this where now that's where he dropped
on his face and that's I thought he was
taking cover so I was able to jump on
top of him so he don't get shot and I'm
looking back
there the guy is about 125 ft 130 ft
away you know and he turns
around and run
and my son Sammy sees the blood and he
started yelling his son's his brother
name Samir Samir so when I looked and I
saw the blood I told him go get a phone
call
911 and he did and I turned Samir
around and listened to his heartbeat and
he it was beating so I started calling
him like come on Samir and he was not
moving for about 10 minutes he did not
move at all so Samir Samy came back with
the phone his mom or D came back with
the phone s uh sister everybody body The
Neighbors start coming out calling 911
it was a gathering it's a shooting but
yet everybody came all the neighbors
everybody's out at this point yes 10
minutes after
that and that's he start gagging on his
blood he started gagging on his blood
and I turned him to his side he's in
your arms now you got a hold of him yes
turned him his side the blood came out I
see the blood coming out of everywhere
in his face
and but he have not responded yet his
first respond he had put his hand on the
ground and he tried to get up so at this
point I don't want to pull it to travel
so I'm trying to hold him down I end up
on my back on the floor and he's on top
of me and I held him and wrestling move
that I told
him and he won several times with that
move and I held him that way with my
arms and my legs so he don't move and he
was still too strong for me you know
right the I started telling Sammy to go
and get the car he got the keys from his
mom and went to get the car because the
ambulance was taking too
long picked him up triy to put him in
the car he just bought that car not too
long ago and he didn't fit in the back
seat of it so now the ambulance there it
just you you you you you're feeling that
time is is crucial is prous so so now
you get the other your car try to get
him in the car and it just wouldn't fit
no and I was I was trying to put him in
there we saw the ambulance comes in the
alley and they missed the
alley and by the time they turned around
and come to this side it was police cars
everywhere where the ambulance couldn't
come
through so when the stretcher came and
ambulance people couldn't even pick him
up and put him there cuz he's holding on
to me and everything I'm the one that
put him on
stretcher rolled the stretcher put him
in
ambulance then his mom sister and two
little brother followed as me and Sammy
stayed back because we had to give our
the information to the police they won't
let us
leave after we done it was like almost
sh son is about to come
out and that's a little before that
that's where my wife called me and said
the doctor said that he's not going to
make it he he he won't make it more than
24
hours I told us just go read some Quran
to him
say and that's what he did what she did
and soon as I got done I went in to the
hospital
and I kept reading Quran to him and I'm
knowing that I'm losing my
son and the doctor's trying to convince
me like this is it and I said try do
your best you said he don't he won't
make it
24hour let's do that 24hour let's
prepare the
family cuz I want know what to go and
tell my daughter and my other sons that
yall lost your brothers you
know
so it was around 7:00 when the doctor
says the blood pressure is too low it
was 35 over 13
and there was a medication that they can
use they can put in there where it can
increase the blood pressure and if it
doesn't work then they're going to have
to put another tube in
him and that will work so the medication
did not
work but the tube did work and as the
blood pressure was increasing the
heartbeat was dropping and it was
dropping fast I stepped out the room
just for a few seconds not even a minute
you know just to go and check on the
kids and come back and as I'm running
back to the room and I'm here my wife
crying you
know I probably got there monitor was
saying like 10
heartbeats you know and I'm not even
around the curtain you know I'm just
peeking to see what's going on the
monitor was saying 10 heart beats and
the nurse says who's going to pronounce
the death
and the doctor says 9:30 we pronounce
him
dead so
now we just did the right thing sat
there read the shahada for him I don't
know whether is that accepted or
not but I did say the shahad I said on
Samir since he's not able to talk
I kept reading Quran so this all come
out
easily I I know you've You' you've
you've um told the story over and over
and you've said so many tears and it's
been a very emotional time in your life
and made the creator of the heavens and
earth make it easy for you and your
family and I I I want you to to tell us
for for the person um have have the
police been able to so far we know that
they haven't caught this individual I
don't know if they caught him or not
last uh conversation I had with the
detective uh less than 24 hours ago they
said they have several people there only
two that they caught with the same uh
gun that my son was shot with what kind
of gun was he shot with it was a 45
caliber Smith and Wesson with the
Winchester bullets any advice that you
have for families who they have their
kids they're alive and kids who have
their parents the families now they've
never tasted something like this you
know to really reflect about the purpose
of life and to take life seriously and
you know what advice do you have that's
exactly what it is life is
precious you know it's not ours but it's
precious spend it wisely you know
basically keep them around
you I mean the Allah is the protector
he's only he's the only protector you
you cannot protect anybody you cannot
protect yourself to protect
others so have keep your faith in
Allah in the same
time bond with your kids no matter
what matter if they one year old or if
they 30 40 years old keep bonding with
them cuz you don't know when are you
going to go or when they going to go he
haven't missed not one Ramadan since the
age of
he fast all Ramadan I probably missed a
couple of days here and there or a few
days of when I'm sick and so on he have
not missed one day of Ramadan he makes
sure he fast the whole Ramadan and
that's his friends on the basketball
court used to pick on him like why are
you fasting he was like why are you not
fasting they was like CU it's too hard
he was like you will get it one day
you'll get
it and if they push him to get him angry
he'll get fall and he'll get up after
they took the ball from him and he'll go
and take the ball make that basket and
he's still smiling they was like you
don't get angry I was like why should I
we playing we're just playing I'd like
to thank you and may the creator of the
heavens and earth continue to to make
things easy for you to reward you for
all your patience and send mercy and
blessings upon your family may he re
reunite you with your son in Jenna
brother thank
you okay you've got your dream home and
you've got your dream car but you're
going to get old and things are going to
happen to you in your life and then what
have you got at the end of the day it's
an empty dream that has no real
Foundation we are going to die and we're
going to meet our Lord and he is going
to judge us it becomes an obligation for
each single human being to find out what
the Quran is Islam is telling us to stay
away from things which are bad for your
person and bad for the
society one God worship him alone do
what he wants you to do put your desires
this thing inside you that just wants
this and wants that and you just can't
get enough you know what you never get
enough until the dirt's in your mouth
don't let it come to that be sincere and
honest ask the one who created you to
guide you is the first step put off
chasing all the women and the good times
and the parties and this and that there
is no one worthy of worship except Allah
don't wait you never know if death would
come today for you or
not death and the day of judgment the
mercy of Allah these are the things that
finally made me realize there is no time
to delay anymore I wanted to take my
shahada right there there is great the
essence of spirituality is to become
more sincere to Allah contemplate deck
itself it is very very scary but it
brings you back to reality there is a
life which is Everlasting in the
Hereafter you have to make a conscious
decision of which group of people do you
want to
the people of or the people of
H peace be unto you we're here with the
bakut
family and it's a very
uh for me you know usually people are
tuning and watching the dean show and
I'm I'm very elated and excited and you
know we're we're sharing the message of
the purpose of life and I I heard this
story and I just couldn't let it pass by
because I I didn't want this you know we
got people dying all over the world and
this is something I just happened in our
backyard uh this
story brought us together and I didn't
want it to just be a fading memory I
wanted to get this story out there to
humanity so we can make a difference so
we can try to help stop another innocent
human being from
tomorrow you know getting killed in this
senseless violence so we we got to hear
what happened to your son this is your
brother this is my brother
ramum peace be with
you you flew in from California what
were your thoughts when you heard this
the last thing in your wildest
imagination you wouldn't think you were
getting a c what tell us at that moment
what
happened
actually I when I just wake up just the
time different I wake up text somebody
just text me a message I read it says
Samir IB yusf just died that's your
nephew now yeah said Samir IB YF died
who crazy who's Crazy sending this
message thought it was maybe a joke yeah
look it's my sister I told my wife Samir
Samir just died sel's son so
she Samir open SEL my son is
Yousef Samir Samir ibel so
my wife crashed start
crying I don't believe what's going on
so I called my
sister my S my sister she said yeah he
just uh passed
away it's just hit you
and I was wondering what the what's
going on it's is it real is it is it
sickness is shot what's going on then I
called her she said no he got shot so I
start I took uh his telephone number I
called him and he was crying he said
just got shot just got shot so I just
got uh the
first plane and flyed all the way here
you had a one-way ticket all the way to
Chicago yeah that's I just got the
one-way ticket I said I just want to go
see what's going on because it was
really surprising something like this
happened you always see it in news you
see it everywhere I thought some
something friend or something but like
mcar like this when you hear it and
everywhere you never thought it's going
to hit
home once it's hit home it's totally
different you're not going to flip
channels anymore you will hear what
other people say a lot of people they
look at the
TV 11 people together just got died this
guy in the theater this here this here
in Syria people killed you just look at
it and with cold blood you just keep
flipping channels that's I'm one of them
so I just keep flipping the CH flipping
the channels and
forget that there's really there's human
life just got
lost and we don't even think about that
we just thinking about the remote
control just okay go now another killing
here now another killing here that's
what really going start hitting
now it's home so how are we going to
deal with it how how how have you guys
been dealing with it so far how how are
you guys holding up so far we're trying
to gather together all of us from
California came in from New York from
Ohio all came in to to join my brother
to make sure that make Allah make it
easy on all of us and on him and and I
told them anything happened we have to
get the positive out of it it's easy he
killed my son I'm going to grab a gun
and go around somebody else to kill to
kill that kill this but what about if we
can get something positive out of it the
positive thing is start try to make
awareness for everybody IR try to catch
those people try to stop them from what
they're doing what we go what like I
told them there's a Lara agency they
could help to do some flyers or do some
reward for them and when we were in
Cemetery we you mentioned and we were
about the crime stoer and yesterday we
called and we found out about some
information and we want to do some
flyers we want to do something on their
school we want to do some some more
stuff to gather people to tell them this
is really did hit home and you guys
really need to stop the violence against
the the kids and those people they
really need to
stop we need
to keep our children around us as much
as possible the children should bury us
we shouldn't bury
them like I said I'm not mad I'm not
angry only thing is I'm a little sad
because I'm going to miss
him I'm going to miss
him he my oldest son
yeah he he took a piece of my heart with
him but he's going to live in my heart
forever and I will always pray for
him and I ask everybody to make a prayer
for
him and if we're going to worship
something I figured I might as well
worship the Creator instead of any of
the creat
now upon investigating all the religions
I remember finding out the meaning of
what Islam is what a Muslim is those who
surrender their self to God is a Muslim
those who surrender submit to God God's
will that is it Islam was pure it was
just you just pray to God your
creator AF to stand
alone I am not afraid to stand alone if
for Li by side I am not afraid to stand
alone I am not afraid to stand alone if
Li by I am not afraid to stand
alone I am not afraid to stand alone Li
I am not afraid
alone back here on the dean show we get
just got to interview the butov family
who lost their son in this senseless
violence that overtook them so you get
to reflect this is the test of life
people are dying every day and you see
how they're handling it because they
have faith in the creator of the heavens
and earth but inshallah God willing a
greater good will come from this that
the community that the people will come
together and say we've had enough of
this work with the police to bring this
culprit to Justice and the culprit who's
out there who did
this the best thing you can do is turn
to the to heavens and earth and repent
make sincere repentance to the Creator
before death overtakes you and you
mentioned something about dipping
because otherwise you're going to be
dipping straight into the Hellfire and
that's a scary hot place and then
apologize to this family and go do your
time go do your time because you did the
crime and for those who are out there
who are thinking about being in a gang
who are in a gang this is one of the
stupidest thing that you can do with
your life foolish
ignorant families need to work together
to to bring their children upright to
stay
away Stay Together work together so they
can bring up solid families together
good institutions of fam so their
children aren't without a father not
without a
mother and then they have enough love in
this family so the kids don't have to go
out and look for love the wrong love
somewhere else joining these gangs
joining these criminal organizations
these terrorist organizations because
they're striking Terror and innocent
people's homes like they just did to the
Barak Baraka family so if you have any
information to help solve this crime go
ahead and call the detectives who are on
the
case work with the neighborhood watch
program work with the authorities called
Alderman also you have his number here
to
get everybody involved to help
clean this neighborhood up to help clean
this neighborhood up from these
terrorists who are out here the gang
members these are the real terrorists
who are out here terrifying innocent
people so let's work together let's make
Dua for this family supplicate for this
family and work together to bring peace
into this neighborhood and all around
the world and that's what Muslims should
be doing Muslims ones who are submitted
to the will of God are about peace and
bringing peace not Havoc to the Earth
and that's what we want to do by your
duas that Allah the creator of the
heavens and earth sends tranquility and
peace to this family who's going through
such a hard time Allah make it easy and
so we can bring peace into this
community that is being reigned with
violence day after day after day so with
your help we can do it God willing work
with the authorities work with the
politicians and let's clean up these
streets because that as the prophet the
last messenger sent to mankind said if
you see an evil change it with your
hands if you're not with your hand hands
you speak out against it with your
tongue and the least amount of faith is
to hate it in your heart and we hate
this senseless violence we hate it so
let's work with the authorities to put
an end to this in our neighborhood even
in your neighborhood if you're not here
in Chicago go ahead and do the right
thing and get involved in the community
to make the community a
safer place for all those people who are
trying to live in peace we'll see you
next time here on the dean show until
then peace be with you e