The Christian Post reports: “A Catholic father of four children was gunned down by Muslim neighbors last week after he objected to their harassment of Christians in the area, his family said.

Marshall Masih of the Patiala House area in Lahore was the sole breadwinner for his elderly parents, wife and four children — the oldest 10, the youngest 18 months old. He was 29.

His sister Goshi Yaqoob, 33, said his family was asleep at 4:25 a.m. last Wednesday when four armed Muslims led by Muhammad Shani and Azam Ali entered their house from the rooftop after cutting the iron grill.

‘The assailants broke the door of my brother’s bedroom on the first floor of the house and held him and his family hostage on gunpoint,’ Yaqoob told Christian Daily International-Morning Star News. ‘They then opened indiscriminate fire on him, riddling his body with 16 bullets in the presence of his wife and minor children.’

Yaqoob was at her parents’ house at that time. The sound of gunfire and the screams of her sister-in-law and children woke her up, and she rushed to their house, where she saw four men heading to the roof. She went to her brother’s bedroom.

‘I was horrified to see his blood-soaked body lying on the floor while his wife and children were huddled in a corner crying frantically,’ she said, breaking down in tears…”