SWD 32

Sabika Sheikh, 17, US gun terror attack victim

In memory of Sabika Sheikh, age 17 and an exchange student from Pakistan, shot-to-death by a mass shooter terrorist, Santa Fe High School, Texas, May 18, 2018.

Media: Ink, gouache, colored pencil.
Framed, 22 inches H x 24 W
Art: 2018
Framed, 18 inches H x 22 W [45.8 cm. H x 55.8 W]  

Sabika Sheik, from Karachi, Pakistan, arrived in Texas in August 2017. She was an exchange student, during the autumn 2017 through winter-spring 2018 academic terms at Santa Fe High School.  The sponsor was the US State Department’s Kennedy-Lugar Youth Exchange and Study Program. She wanted to become a diplomat. She was scheduled to fly home in less than 3 weeks. Sadly, and so needlessly, she was shot to death by an American terrorist. Her body was sent home in a coffin.

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At the time of his terrorism attack, the assailant, American-born Dimitrios Pagourtzis, was 17 years of age.  Pagourtzis… carried a Remington 870 shotgun and a .38 caliber pistol and shot multiple people "with the intent of killing people," - Quote from a CNN news website article.

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“My heart drowns,” a quote by her father, Abdul Aziz Sheikh. See this May 23, 2018 article in The Guardian, UK.