A group of teenagers used hammers to savagely beat a man to death in a random attack on a St. Louis street Sunday, according to police.
Zemir Begic, 32, was driving around 1:15 am in the city's Bevo Mill neighborhood when at least three juveniles approached his vehicle and began wailing at it with hammers, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports.
The driver, who is a Bosnian immigrant, got out of the car to confront the assailants, the attackers started yelling at him and pummeling him with hammers, cops said. After the vicious onslaught was over, Begic — who had only been living in St. Louis for a year — was left battered and broken with injuries to his head, face, mouth and abdomen.
He later died at St. Louis University Hospital, according to the Dispatch.
Hammer attack victim Zemir Begic with his wife Arijana.Photo: Jennifer Elizabeth via GoFundMe
A 15-year-old and a 16-year-old male were both in police custody Sunday evening as investigators worked to determine a motive, the Dispatch reports. Police said they also know the name of a third suspect and now believe that a fourth was involved, as well.
St. Louis police Chief Sam Dotson said that Begic's killing did not appear to be motivated by race or ethnicity.
"There is no indication that the gentleman last night was targeted because he was Bosnian," he said. "There's no indication that they knew each other."
Suad Nuranjkovic, 49, was riding in the passenger seat of Begic's car at the time the unprovoked assault broke out. The two were on their way home from a bar when the teens bombarded them near the intersection of Gravois Avenue and Itaska Street, according to the Dispatch.
As Begic stood up to the hooligans, Nuranjkovic was able to run across the street to safety.
"I was afraid that if one of them had a gun they were going to shoot me," he said. "So I didn't know what to do."
Nuranjkovic — who is also Bosnian — has no idea why there were singled out.
"I don't know why this is happening to Bosnians," he said. "We could go around and shoot people, too, but we just want peace."
Outraged Bosnians took to the streets Sunday night to voice their grievance over Begic's murder and also bring attention to other aggressive acts recently aimed at their people — including the 2013 fatal shooting of a 19-year-old immigrant in Bevo Mill, according to the Dispatch.
Demonstrators, along with Begic's sister, Denisa, marched to the location of the heinous hammer attack and called for more to be done to protect the Bosnian community from
"I hope justice is served for my brother because he didn't deserve this at all," Denisa said. "I don't know what to think of it. It's so wrong what they did."
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