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Akron family remembers son killed in pizza shop

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It's been four months since an Akron student was seen on surveillance video being shot in cold blood. His killer is still at large. 

Zak Husein would have been 22 years old on Friday. That night -- and every night -- his family is desperate for answers in the investigation. 

Reporter Homa Bash learned the family planted a garden in Husein's memory outside the shop he was killed at, with the hope that the flowers would somehow help erase the memory of seeing their son being killed on camera. 

"My son is in the ground and the person who did it, he's living and eating and going everywhere," Naeima Husein, Zak's mother, said. "It's not fair. It's been three months."

On Dec. 7, 2015, surveillance video captured the moments as a masked gunman walked in and killed Zak Husein, even after he gave them all the money they asked for. Zak was working at his brother's pizza shop on Glenwood Ave.

Friday night, the case sat unsolved, the killer still on the loose.

In January, the Federal Bureau of Investigation got involved in the case to try and enhance the surveillance video. There are still no leads. 

Police told Bash they're hoping for one tip that can break the case. Anyone with any information should call Akron Police.