DENVER (AP) — In between shifts at Amazon to earn money she could send home to her relatives in Senegal — working opposite times as her sister-in-law so they could care for each other’s children — Hassan Diol would call to talk to her husband several times a day.
Amadou Beye was still in Senegal, trying to get a visa so he could also come to the United States. His wife, joined by their infant daughter, would also video call every day. Amadou Beye couldn’t wait to meet his child and see his wife again.
But he never got that chance.
Diol and their little daughter, Hawa, and three other members of their extended family were killed in a house fire in Denver in 2020 that authorities said was set in the middle of the night by a group of teens in a case of mistaken revenge.
The last of the three suspects could be sent to prison for 60 years during a hearing Tuesday after pleading guilty to reduced charges in a plea deal.
Beye sees Kevin Bui, now 20, as a “terrorist” for taking five members of one family, which also included his wife’s brother Djibril Diol, who was an engineer, his wife Adja Diol, and their 22-month-old daughter.