Mohammed Zafer, 60, a storeowner in the Bronx, NY, was warming up his car when two men shot and killed him on Friday night. They then drove away in his Kia Sephia car, according to police.

Zafer was sitting in his car at about 2000 hours on the Rochambeau Avenue, near his Z&S Newsstand on Bainbridge Avenue, when the attackers approached him. Witnesses told the police that they heard Zafer calling for help.

The attackers took his wallet. There was $2,000 in his trouser pocket, which they could not take.

Born in Hyderabad, India, Zafer moved to Pakistan with his parents during partition, according to reports. He came to the US in 1978.

He owned the store in North Bronx for nearly 20 years. He was planning to move to California because his wife, Shama, was asthmatic, friends told the media.

Their daughter is a pharmacist and son a college student.