America, it seems, is not coming to grips, not recognizing, that it is in a state of acute political schizophrenia in which a large number of White citizens are on a real and actual killing spree, shooting Blacks and Muslims at will. Weeks after the Chapel Hill murders, comes the news of the killing of a Pakistani man who ran a store in Kentucky.

Mukhtar Ahmad kissed his kids on the forehead Wednesday morning; he said he'd see them for dinner then climbed into his SUV and left for work.

Minutes later, as Ahmad drove along the interstate, another motorist — a stranger, with a history of mental illness and in the midst of a divorce — allegedly pulled out a gun and fired several shots at Ahmad's car.

He careened into the median and crashed into a guardrail. Ahmad, a husband and father of three, died in the driver's seat of a single gunshot wound to his torso.

"He was the kind of guy who carried his heart in his hands," said his wife, Shamy Nabil. "I am grateful for my faith. I know we are all going to die, one way or another. I just didn't expect it to be this soon, I didn't expect it to be like this."

Predictably, much like Chapel Hill murders were described as a `parking dispute', Police described the incident as a random act of road rage. Ahmad had no connection to the man accused of killing him, 43-year-old Christopher McCullum, an unlicensed electrician arrested five months ago with four loaded handguns, two rifles, a crossbow and marijuana, according to court records.

However, neighbours described McCullum as a gun toting `violent man', who loved harassing homeless people and blacks. Of late, he had become anti-Muslim and Islamophobic.  

Ahmad, who owned a convenience store on West Market Street in the Russell neighborhood, was an immigrant from Pakistan and his death has jarred the small, tight-knit community in Louisville. His brother had to call home, in the middle of the night in Pakistan, and break the news to his elderly mother, said attorney and family friend, Khalid Kahloon.

"The confusion, the fear, has traveled from here to their small village," Kahloon said. "The whole village, and probably all the neighboring villages, are grieving."

Ahmad and Nabil met in Morocco, her home country, and married in 2000. They moved to Louisville in 2003 and had three children, two boys, now ages 6 and 11, and a 13-year-old girl. Ahmad was a careful man, protective of his children, so the family moved to the suburbs, just off the Gene Snyder Freeway near the Oldham County line. He looked older than his age, his wife said, because he worried so much about his responsibilities.

Andrew Game