‘A battle for an innocent life is over’: Store clerk shot during Roxbury robbery dies
“He was a student who came to the USA to make his dream live. But a bullet shot destroyed everything.”
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After five weeks spent fighting for his life at a local hospital, the 24-year-old store clerk who was shot in the head during a Boston armed robbery last month died of his injuries Saturday, according to the Boston Police Department.
Tanjim Siam was critically injured during the July 14 robbery at the M&R Store on Shawmut Avenue in Roxbury.
Despite complying with the robber’s demands, the suspect — 25-year-old Lynn resident Stephon Samuel, who was recently arrested on charges of attempted murder — allegedly shot Siam in the head.
Siam, who came to Massachusetts from Bangladesh and started working at M&R only four months ago, had spent over a month on life support at Boston Medical Center before investigators were informed that he died of his injuries, police said.
The Boston Convenience Store Owners Association said in a statement that Siam’s organs were failing, and his family made the extremely difficult decision to take him off life support on Friday. He died Saturday morning.
“A battle for an innocent life is over,” the association wrote. “He was a student who came to the USA to make his dream live. But a bullet shot destroyed everything.”
The association added that nearly every penny Siam made, he sent back home to his family in Bangladesh so they could have a better life.
With the help of BCSOA, Mayor Marty Walsh, Sen. Elizabeth Warren, and Sen. Ed Markey, Siam’s family was able to travel to the United States to visit his bedside before he passed.
“Tanjim is a kind soul who came to this country to get an education and begin building his life,” Humayun Morshed, secretary of the BCSA and friend of Siam, wrote on the GoFundMe page created for him and his family. “He is good to everybody, helpful and friendly. He moved to Boston alone, leaving his parents, and siblings behind, with a dream to get an education. But his dreams and hard work have now been shattered.”
As of Sunday afternoon, the GoFundMe campaign had raised about $90,000 of its $100,000 goal. It is still accepting donations.
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