ILHAM Munawar Siddiq has been living in Atlanta, Georgia, the United States, for almost two years. The postgraduate student at the Georgia Institute of Technology shares an apartment at the Midtown area with his two colleagues and American friends. It is only a five-minute drive from Piedmont Road where the mass shootings—suspected to be racially motivated—took place in mid-March.

The Piedmont road is lined with shops, clothing store