Wife of slain Lyft driver: ‘We are so broken’
Camila Wright flew all the way to Istanbul to meet her future husband, but it was worth it. She and Shahriar Zolfaghari were married nine months later.
A year ago, the couple welcomed a daughter, Zoya. While Camila worked as an assistant attorney general, her husband stayed home with the baby. In the evenings, Zolfaghari worked as a Lyft driver to help support the family.
He was working early Wednesday morning when he was shot and killed in northeast Atlanta, according to police. On Friday, the investigation continued into the death, but no arrests had been made. A $10,000 reward — including $5,000 announced by Gov. Nathan Deal Friday afternoon — is being offered to help find the person responsible for the shooting.
“We are broken,” Wright said Friday outside her family’s Cobb County home. “He loved Zoya. He loved me. And he loved our lives.”
Zolfaghari, 36, was found in his car at the intersection of Rankin Street and Boulevard and had been shot twice, police said.
Attorney General Sam Olens appointed Zolfaghari’s wife as Georgia’s statewide prosecutor for human trafficking in October 2014. Before that, Wright spent three years overseeing the Fulton County Human Trafficking Unit, which she established during her time with the Fulton County District Attorney’s Office.
