Mir Qazi entered the United States using false documents and purchased a fake green card. He purchased a Chinese made AK-47 "legally" at a Chantilly gun shop.
After the shooting, he fled to Pakistan.
After his capture and execution, his funeral in Pakistan was attended by the entire civil hierarchy of Balochistan, the local Pakistan Army Corps Commander and the Pakistani Ambassador to the United States, Ashraf Jahangir Qazi.
Mourning his death, the democratically elected ruling provincial party, Mutahida Majlis-i-Amal (MMA) hailed him as "hero of Islam" and Hafiz Hussain Ahmed, an MNA from Quetta declared, "God, destroy those who handed him over to America. God, his murderers, whether in America or in Pakistan, may they meet their fate soon"