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The Houston man who gunned down an Afghan refugee rushed toward him moments before opening fire, and then casually walked away after killing the father-of-two, his furious family told The Post.
Video obtained by The Post appears to show the gunman — who claimed he killed Abdul Rahman Waziri in self defense and has not been charged or publicly named — saunter away from the scene, Waziri’s brother Abdullah Khan said.
Waziri’s family members believe the video is evidence that the killer was the aggressor in a dispute over a parking spot at the apartment complex where both men lived.
They say that the gunman should be arrested and charged.
“I will not stay silent. I want this guy to be behind bars,” Khan said, adding that he saw the dreadlocked killer coldly walk past him as he was cleaning up his brother’s blood the day after the shooting.
A heartbroken group of Green Berets who fought side-by-side with Waziri are also slamming the decision calling for “justice for our brother.”
Waziri, who fled to the US to escape the Taliban after working with American troops, was killed on April 27 as he pulled his car over in the parking lot of his west Houston apartment complex to check his mail.
But the Harris County District Attorney’s office declined to press charges, forcing local cops to let the killer go.
A spokesperson for the DA’s office told The Post they’re “still waiting on additional information from investigators before making a charging decision,” but wouldn’t say whether or not they’ve reviewed the video of the incident.
According to the family’s account of the video — which was taken by a surveillance camera at the apartment complex, the gunman became angry after pulling behind Waziri’s car as he stopped to get the mail.
The killer was spotted by witnesses vandalizing Waziri’s car before the fight broke out, said the victim’s family lawyer, Omar Khawaja.
Waziri’s family said the video shows the shooter’s feet running toward Waziri — before he allegedly retrieved a gun and fatally shot the Afghan man several times.
The video does not show the shooting because it is obscured by a carport.
After the shooting, the gunman can be seen walking away — before returning on the phone, according to the family.
Cops were later called to the scene, where they found Waziri’s body with multiple gunshot wounds lying next to his white Toyota Camry.
The 31-year-old husband and father was rushed to Ben Taub General Hospital before he was declared dead.
The shooter admitted to cops at the scene that “he was the shooter” and that he was under threat at the time, Houston police said.
Officers confiscated his firearm at the scene and handcuffed the alleged shooter before cutting him loose, according to footage taken by KPRC.
He was eventually kicked out of the apartment complex, the family said.
“We came here to be safe, but here is also ridiculous. Someone could come and kill you just for not moving your car,” Waziri’s brother Khan told The Post.
Green Beret Ben Hoffman told The Post that, “Abdul Rahman was literally willing to lay down his life for us – for us, for Americans.”
He added: “He was a lion. He was a warrior. He was a hero,” said Hoffman, describing Waziri as a “peacemaker.”
Retired Special Forces Green Beret Chris Wells helped petition the US government to grant Waziri a special visa for assisting US troops, but “to have him come here and get shot to death over a parking spot” was “completely disheartening,” he said.
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