U.S. Army Interpreter Escaped Taliban Only to be Shot Dead Driving D.C. Lyft
An Afghan interpreter for U.S. Army Special Forces who escaped the Taliban was shot and killed earlier this week while driving for Lyft in Washington, D.C.
Police found 31-year-old Nasrat Ahmad Yar, a father of four, dead in his car with a single gunshot wound just before dawn on Monday. According to a GoFundMe page set up to benefit his widow, he was working an “extra late shift” for the ride share company when he was killed.
Yar served with the U.S. Army for a decade in Afghanistan before the country fell under Taliban control, according to the GoFundMe. As a likely target for retribution by the insurgent group, he and his family escaped in 2021, relocating first to Philadelphia before settling in Alexandria, Virginia, just outside of Washington, D.C.