Three and a half months after Hassan Alawsi was shot to death in a Home Depot parking lot off Florin Road, his dream of sharing his art with the world came true at the state Capitol on Wednesday.
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Winty Singh of the Sikh Coalition takes a photograph of artwork by Hassan Alawsi in the office of Assemblyman Richard Pan, D-Sacramento, at the Capitol on Wednesday. Pan and members of the Sacramento art community hosted a reception to unveil the artwork of Alawsi, who was gunned down in March in the parking lot of a Home Depot off Florin Road. Alawsi was a refugee from Iraq who had studied art history at the University of Baghdad.
