The Tribune

By LEANDRA ROLLE

Tribune Chief Reporter

lrolle@tribunemedia.net

THE sister of a 30-year-old father of two gunned down on Fire Trail Road East last week believes jealousy and envy may have driven the killing and is convinced her brother knew his attacker.

Abdul Zidor, who had an eight-year-old child and a six-month-old baby, was shot dead on Wednesday night after a gunman wearing a black hoodie approached his car and opened fire as he tried to flee.

His older sister, Daphnee Sera, said video footage shown to her by police left her believing the gunman specifically targeted Zidor.

Ms Sera, 32, said the footage showed her brother sitting in his newly purchased car with a friend when a person ran across the road towards him and began firing.

Zidor ran, but the gunman pursued him and, according to his sister, “finished him off.”

“That was terrible,” Ms Sera said of watching the footage.

She said the family believes jealousy and envy may have motivated the killing, pointing to her brother’s drive to make money and his recent purchase of two vehicles.

“He was a hustler,” Ms Sera said. “That's what they didn't like.”

She said Zidor had bought one vehicle and planned to repair its transmission before giving it to the mother of his child, then bought another vehicle — the one he was in when he was killed.

Ms Sera described her brother as someone who avoided prolonged conflict and preferred to settle disagreements rather than allow them to escalate.

“Everybody who knew him personally knew he do not bother,” she said. “If you have a wybe with him, he rather squash it so like y'all don't have no lingering beef.”

Daphnee Sera was in Eleuthera when her brother was killed.

She said she was lying down at her cousin’s home when Zidor’s girlfriend called her with the news.

“She was like, ‘Sister, sister, sister, they kill him for me’,” Ms Sera recalled. “And I was like, ‘What?’ She said they kill Abdul and I scream my cousin's name.”

She said she became inconsolable and returned to New Providence the following day.

Zidor’s killing has dealt another blow to a family still mourning a cousin who was killed last year.

“Everybody take that hard and everybody trying to cope as best as we can cope because that just hit us suddenly,” Ms Sera said. “I literally just stopped crying.”

She and her brother were the closest of eight siblings and had grown up together before losing their mother more than a decade ago.

Daphnee Sera said they remained in frequent contact and that her brother regularly spoke about wanting to ensure she and his children were taken care of.

“He was very family-oriented,” she said.

The day before Zidor was killed, Ms Sera said the siblings were on a video call with another brother, laughing and joking.

She described him as bubbly, someone who enjoyed making people laugh and getting on her nerves.

“Everything like he don't take nothing serious?” she said. “He loved to get off and get on people's nerves especially mine.”

Ms Sera said she was particularly proud that her brother had turned his life around after getting into trouble with the law in his 20s.

She said he served a one-year prison sentence for drug offences but stayed out of trouble after his release.

“From the one time he went to jail,” Daphnee Sera said, “that was it.”

She described Zidor as someone who tried to help others and make people smile.

His death pushed the country’s murder count to 48 for the year, according to The Tribune’s records.