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{SPEAKER name="Thomas and Latefee Cory"}
Yes, um, he was running, the boy ?

{SPEAKER name="Speaker1"}
He was running and carrying a knife in his hand and saying to my late father, "Dad, Cut" so he can cut the grapes. And the boy ran and didn't find anyone at the house.
He told him, "Ehhh, you never rest until you run around all morning and come and go and cut grapes." My mother and father cut grapes so they could make preserves.

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{SPEAKER name="Speaker2"}
Preserves and, and juices. Yes.

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{SPEAKER name="Speaker1"}
My mom, she didn't give it any thought at all. After a little while, she said to my father, "Where's that boy ?". They came and found him lying under the shade and [[??]] and feces coming out of him and vomit from his mouth. They carried him and went, when they arrived at the house, he was dead.

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{SPEAKER name="Speaker3"}
So sad.

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{SPEAKER name="Speaker1"}
What they found in his stomach. They found his stomach like this, [[??]] about the size of an eye, [[??]] poked a hole in his stomach.

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{SPEAKER name="Thomas and Latefee Cory"}
Do you see the eye ? [[??]] picture of the eye ? It hit him in the eye ?

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{SPEAKER name="Speaker2"}
[[??]] picture of the eye, yea.

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{SPEAKER name="Speaker1"}
Size of the eye. Had hit in the eye. Yes, in his stomach he was hit.

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{SPEAKER name="Thomas and Latefee Cory"}
But this, this has, had to be someone with strength to be able to kill him in a minute.

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[[background conversation]]
{SPEAKER name="Speaker2"}
Oh yea yea.

{SPEAKER name="Speaker1"}
Within a minute, yea.

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{SPEAKER name="Thomas and Latefee Cory"}
Was there anyone stronger than the one who hit him ?

{SPEAKER name="Speaker2"}
Oh yes yes.

{SPEAKER name="Speaker1"}
Yes, there are people, doing [[inaudible]].

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{SPEAKER name="Thomas and Latefee Cory"}
What, who comes to [[??]] them ?

{SPEAKER name="Speaker1"}
Nobody knows.

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{SPEAKER name="Speaker2"}
We were -- we had a man [[??]] who is a Druze.

{SPEAKER name="Speaker1"}
[[inaudible]]

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{SPEAKER name="Speaker2"}
Huh ?

{SPEAKER name="Speaker1"}
[[inaudible]]

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{SPEAKER name="Speaker2"}
[[inaudible]]. they built-- your relatives, what's their name ? you know them, [[inaudible]] what's their name. No, no, the other ones. His sister-- Tofaha and-- Aaskar !

{SPEAKER name="Thomas and Latefee Cory"}
what?

{SPEAKER name="Speaker2"}
Aaskar was in that country, he had no siblings except one brother and he went and tore down the old house and built a new, very nice house.


{SPEAKER name="Speaker1"}
[[inaudible]]

{SPEAKER name="Speaker2"}
Arches and that. [[??]]. I know him, a long time ago, the man. [[??]] , he told them "What would you give me if I [[??]] the house for you ?". [[??]] knocked down the [[block?]] and. The house he tore it down.

{SPEAKER name="Thomas and Latefee Cory"}
[[cross talk]]
Like, like this, He is able -- to be -- to take a person and pick them -- ?

{SPEAKER name="Speaker2"}
As he is standing, he would toss a person and kill them. But he [[??]] built it up and put up blue platters, [[??]] it had blue platters, Aaskar's house. Yea. When they rebuilt it a second time, they put the blue platters. That was during my time, I was [[??]]


Transcription Notes:
PLEASE ONLY SUBMIT FOR REVIEW OR APPROVAL IF YOU ARE ABLE TO UNDERSTAND AND TRANSCRIBE ARABIC. Interview is in Arabic throughout. Inaudible background side conversation at the beginning "Hit" could mean shot in the context of the interview but not verified yet