 Associates said he turned down suggestions that for security he should live at the radio station and that he refused to be intimidated by the factions fighting in Mogadishu.He was abducted by armed hooded men early on the morning of 4 May and then later that day shot to death near his home in the Wardhigley neighbourhood of the capital.The editor of Radio Mogadishu, Abdirahman Yusuf, was quoted as saying, "Al Shabaab men have killed Sheikh Nur Abkey ... after they killed him, they called us and told us they killed him."