Carrying The Weight
StoryCorps
NPR
4.5 • 3.9K Ratings
🗓️ 2 March 2021
⏱️ 21 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Dave Isay, founder of StoryCore. |
| 0:02.6 | Support for this podcast and the following message come from Morgan Stanley, a proud sponsor |
| 0:07.2 | of StoryCore. |
| 0:08.2 | Morgan Stanley is committed to giving back into fostering meaningful dialogue among people |
| 0:12.4 | and communities. |
| 0:13.7 | MorganStanley.com. |
| 0:14.8 | It's the StoryCore podcast from NPR. |
| 0:25.8 | I'm your host, Camila Coshani. |
| 0:28.3 | This week's episode is a heavy one. |
| 0:32.3 | We're going to be talking about a murder and how the families involved eventually found |
| 0:37.6 | their way to forgiveness. |
| 0:45.5 | We're bringing you back to January 21st, 1995. |
| 0:49.3 | 20-year-old Tariq Camisa was a student at San Diego State University and he was out |
| 0:55.0 | delivering a pizza when a gang tried to rob him. |
| 0:59.0 | Things escalated and when an older gang member told him to, 14-year-old Tony Hicks shot and |
| 1:05.2 | killed Tariq. |
| 1:07.1 | While Tariq's family was grieving, his father Azim leaned on his faith as a Sufi Muslim. |
| 1:12.1 | It's hard to replay those early days. |
| 1:15.9 | I don't have the words to describe how painful that experience was. |
| 1:20.3 | I couldn't be in my body, I couldn't sleep or eat, but I could meditate. |
| 1:27.4 | I had this out-of-body experience. |
| 1:30.8 | I remember how long I was gone, but God sent me back to my body with the wisdom that there |
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