A memorial sits outside of what used to be Balbir’s gas station, at the very spot where he was shot and killed. Ran Singh Sodhi is Balbir’s youngest brother. He says it doesn't get easier with time.

PHOENIX -- The American Dream is simple: Work hard, love your country and anything is possible. Balbir Singh Sodhi believed in that dream. An immigrant from India, Balbir drove a cab in Los Angeles ...

PHOENIX - On Sept. 15, the Sikh community in the Valley, joined by allies of different backgrounds, gathered to remember a man killed in a hate crime 20 years ago. Balbir Singh Sodhi's murder outside ...

Sept. 11, 2001, was a day that shattered the lives of too many people. It also briefly felt to me that we all came together as Americans, in unity born of shared pain, anger and grief. Just four days ...

Balbir Singh Sodhi’s spirit continues to live on 20 years after his senseless, hate-motivated murder outside his East Mesa gas station four days after 9/11. It was the ultimate irony that a peaceful, ...

(RNS) — Balbir Singh Sodhi was working at his Arizona gas station in 2001, four days after Sept. 11, when he became one of the first victims of skewed attempts at retribution for the attacks. A Sikh, ...

MESA, Ariz. — Sikh entrepreneur Balbir Singh Sodhi was killed at his Arizona gas station four days after the Sept. 11 attacks by a man who declared he was “going to go out and shoot some towel-heads” ...

MESA, Ariz. (AP) — Such attacks can be particularly hard on young Sikhs, who face bullying by classmates who try to yank off their turbans or mock them as ‘Osama’s nephew’ or ‘Saddam Hussein.’ MESA, ...