Relatives and friends, grieving and tense, filed in and out of the murder scene today, the home of 40-year-old Sophos Siv.
Siv was the victim of a torture-murder home invasion yesterday afternoon.
His wife came home from work and found him in a second floor bedroom, bound and gagged with duct tape, beaten and shot, suffering also from a crushed skull.
"He had been severely beaten, he had been shot multiple times, and he also had a 45 pound weight plate that they had taken and bounced it off his head," Philadelphia Police Captain James Clark said.
Friends say they're baffled as to why he was targeted.
Rorng Sorn, the Director of the Cambodian Association of Greater Philadelphia, serving the roughly 20,000 immigrants, visited the family for a time Wednesday.
"It's just sad. In a small community, like in the Cambodian community, something like this happened, it's really a shocking state for all of us," Sorn said.
Police still have far more questions than answers. Mainly, who would want to torture this man before killing him and why?
Police say the bedroom where the victim was found was ransacked; authorities say the killers entered through a rear kitchen window.
"It does appear to be a robbery. We believe some electronics were taken, some larger electronics were at the window that we believe they were going to take; we think it was a robbery that went terribly bad," Clark said.
Sources say Siv was known to police. They are looking at all sorts of possibilities including possible gang affiliations.
