Befitting Send Off! Designer Shot And Killed In The States Is Eulogized In Memorial Service Before His Kenyan Burial (PHOTOS)

Piece by: Grace Kerongo
Lifestyle

Kenyans in the states converged at KACC on Sunday June 11 for the memorial service of Mike Mulwa Ngangi, 29.

Mike who owned a gas station at Birmingham, Alabama was gunned down during a robbery.

But the police have announced that they have arrested Chandler Bryant, 18. He now faces a first-degree robbery charge, is being held in the Jefferson County Jail without bond.

Hundreds of people packed a the church Sunday for a memorial service.

“He was murdered senselessly, because the killer did not give him a chance to live his full life,” Ngangi's cousin Eric Sukulu told Channel 2’s Matt Johnson.

Ngangi died last Saturday night at the Citgo station he owned in Birmingham.

“He had that contagious good personality. Always happy, always motivating people,” Sukulu said.

Ngangi's childhood friend Tony Ndavi told Johnson that he and Ngangi moved to the U.S. together in 2008 to start a new life.

“Distributing our merchandise to Kenyans and Africans all over the United States,” Ndavi said.

The service can be watched here

Ngangi's parents are still in Kenya, and the community in Cobb County is trying to have his body sent back to his home country.

Here are some photos from the memorial service.