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These pic's we're taken at a protest held today. The protest for the murder of Hassan Yusef, father of seven children.

"Hassan Yussuf's wife flew to Edmonton within hours of receiving the bad news. She brought along four of their seven children and as can be imagined, they're all in shock.

"I'm going to miss him so much. I'm going to miss all of him." says nine year old Sahid Yussuf

One day after finding out their father was murdered, Hassan Yussuf's children struggle to express their grief.

"It's so weird because you don't expect your dad to die just like that." says Ebyan Yussuf, 10 years old

Their father Hassan was beaten to death and stuffed in the trunk of his yellow cab. Police found him five days later.

"I really want to see the people that did it because if they didn't know the person then why would they kill them" says Ebyan

It's a crime that has robbed these children of a father they idolized.

"I remember he said he was going to come on the 20th of April but now he's dead so he can't. come to Ottawa? ya." says Sahid

Hassan worked for Yellow Cab to support his family. But he was hoping to move his wife and seven children to Edmonton so they could be together.

"He was a lovely guy, very happy, very respectable. "Treated you well?" Treated me well ya." says Farha Ali, Hassan's widow

Farha Ali was married to Hassan for 20 years. She's sad and angry.

"The hardest thing in this he has been missing for five days and he was in the trunk that's what I can't take right now, you know?" says Farha Ali

She has a lot of questions, but for now, she's just trying to deal with her loss.

"I'm going to miss him, his laugh you know.. cries.. I don't know.. I don't know." says Farha Ali

"He didn't deserve to die like this." says Mohamed Hersi, Hassan's nephew

Mohamed Hersi was Hassan's nephew. He describes his uncle as an intelligent man who had two degrees and spoke five languages. A man who fled war-torn Somalia in 1991 so his family could have a better life and not live in fear.

"...that's what is on my mind now, seven children now.. it's tough.. really tough... (shakes his head) very tough." says Hersi

Hassan's children may be young, but they realize the sacrifice their father made.

"Like he loved us so then, he would want us to go to university, to have a good life...so then I want to achieve that dream and that's what we're mostly going for." says Ebyan

Hassan Yussuf's relatives have set up two trust funds. One is accepting donations for the Yussuf family. A second is called the Taxi Family Protection Fund. It is for future use in case something happens to a driver. Donations for either fund are being accepted starting tomorrow at TD bank." Global Edmonton