It’s news one Central Kentucky family is having trouble understanding.
A Bosnian refugee with a promising future as a chemical engineer was found beaten to death in a Philadelphia suburb.
Dino Dizdarevic was making the most out of the opportunity given to him back in 1993, when a Richmond church brought his family to Kentucky from Bosnia.
“He came from pretty bad circumstances,” Dizdarevic’s friend Drew Owen said.
But he turned it all around.
After graduating from Madison Southern, Dizdarevic went on to get a chemical engineering degree from University of Louisville and just a few months ago move to Philadelphia and accepted a job in nearby New Jersey.
“It was his dream job. He thought he was getting his life underway. He was getting everything he wanted,” Owen said.
The 25 year old was booked on a Thursday flight from Philadelphia to Cincinnati, coming home for the Kentucky Derby.
His sister got worried when he didn’t show up.
“And immediately I knew something really bad has happened here,” Owen said.
Dizdarevic’s body was found May 1 in Chester, Pennsylvania, about 18 miles from the city.
Family and friends don’t know how he got there or why he strayed from Philadelphia.
Police there said he’d been beaten to death and are investigating his death as a homicide.
“I don’t think he realized where he was going or what he was getting himself into,” Owen said.
Dizdarevic didn’t have a troubled past. He wasn’t into drugs or any criminal activity according to friends.
“He always thought that bad things happened to someone else,” Owen said.
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Dizdarevic’s family is working on funeral arrangements and in the meantime, they’ve set up a memorial fund.
You can donate at any PNC Bank under the Dino Dizdarevic Memorial Fund.
