Washington, July 26: The Sikh Council on Religion and Education (SCORE) has announced that it is joining a coalition of human and civil rights organizations, law enforcement agencies and private citizens in the growing effort to locate and convict the men involved in the shooting of a Sikh man in Arizona last May. SCORE contributed 5,000 US dollar this week to the growing reward fund leading to the capture and conviction of the perpetrators of the hate crime. The donation brings the fund to more than 20,000 US dollar.
Balbir Singh Sodhi, a gas station owner, was shot dead when he was standing outside his mesa gas station, five days after the September 11 attacks.

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