A 30-year-old father of two, gunned down in a targeted shooting last week on Fire Trail Road East, left behind two young children — an eight-year-old and a six-month-old infant — and a shattered family still reeling from a recent previous loss. According to his older sister Daphnee Sera, jealousy over her brother’s hard-won progress and new vehicle purchases may have pushed an attacker he likely knew to take his life.
The deadly attack unfolded on Wednesday night, when a suspect dressed in a black hoodie approached Abdul Zidor’s vehicle and opened fire as Zidor attempted to escape. Police shared surveillance footage of the incident with Sera, which she says confirms the attack was premeditated and specifically targeted her brother. The footage shows Zidor sitting in his recently bought car with a friend when the gunman ran across the road toward the vehicle and began shooting. Though Zidor ran to get away, the suspect chased him down and killed him, a scene Sera described as horrific to watch.
Sera, 32, explained that the family suspects resentment over Zidor’s work ethic and recent success drove the killing. Just before the attack, Zidor had purchased two vehicles: one he planned to repair and give to the mother of his children, and the second new car he was sitting in when the gunman approached. “He was a hustler,” Sera said. “That’s what they didn’t like.”
Contrary to assumptions that may come with the public killing, Sera described her brother as a man who avoided conflict at all costs, preferring to resolve disagreements immediately rather than let lingering grudges develop. “Everybody who knew him personally knew he do not bother,” she said. “If you have a problem with him, he rather squash it so y’all don’t have no lingering beef.”
Sera was on the island of Eleuthera when the shooting happened, resting at her cousin’s home when Zidor’s girlfriend called with the devastating news. She recalled the frantic call: “She was like, ‘Sister, sister, sister, they kill him for me’. And I was like, ‘What?’ She said they kill Abdul and I scream my cousin’s name.” Grief-stricken and inconsolable, Sera traveled back to New Providence the next morning to be with the rest of the family.
The killing is the second devastating blow the family has endured in just over a year: they are still mourning the murder of a cousin killed in 2023. “Everybody take that hard and everybody trying to cope as best as we can cope because that just hit us suddenly,” Sera said. “I literally just stopped crying.”
Of eight siblings, Daphnee and Abdul were the closest, having grown up together after the pair lost their mother more than 10 years ago. They remained in constant contact as adults, and Zidor often spoke of his commitment to providing for his sister and his two young children. “He was very family-oriented,” Sera said.
The day before the shooting, the siblings joined a video call with another brother, laughing and joking like usual. Sera remembered her brother as a lighthearted, bubbly person who loved making people laugh and teasing his older sister. “Everything like he don’t take nothing serious?” she said. “He loved to get off and get on people’s nerves especially mine.”
One thing Sera said she is particularly proud of is how Zidor turned his life around after a run-in with the law in his 20s. He served a one-year prison sentence for a drug offense, but never had further legal trouble after his release. “From the one time he went to jail,” Daphnee Sera said, “that was it.” He had since dedicated himself to supporting his family and lifting up the people around him, she added.
According to tracking by The Tribune, Zidor’s murder pushes the Bahamas’ national murder count to 48 for the current calendar year. Police have not yet announced an arrest or official motive for the killing as the investigation continues.
