The FBI on Friday renewed its call for the public’s help to solve the case of a 40-year-old assassination of a prominent Arab American activist and organizer in Orange County.
Alexander Michel Odeh was killed in a “targeted bombing” on Oct. 11, 1985, involving a booby-trapped explosive device that detonated when he unlocked the door to his Santa Ana office.
Odeh was transported to a nearby hospital where he was pronounced dead. He was 41 years old at the time and was survived by his wife and three daughters. Several other people near the explosion were injured and the building on East 17th street sustained “massive damage,” the FBI said…