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ADVANCE FOR USE SUNDAY, FEB. 2, 2014 AND THEREAFTER - In this Monday, Jan. 27, 2014 photo, Tanveer Mirza stands in the FAITH Social Services offices in Herndon, Va. Mirza emigrated from Pakistan 37 years earlier. In 1999 her mosque started this effort to assist refugees from the civil war in Bosnia who were being resettled in Northern Virginia. They soon realized that, even amid relative wealth, there were many who needed assistance, including many non-Muslims. "You don’t think there are people in need, but there are a lot of them," says Mirza, the organization’s president. "You don't see them." (AP Photo/Adam Geller)
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This 2004 file photo shows Utah County Sheriff's Sgt. Cory Wride, in a training exercise in Provo, Utah. A man with a rifle shot and killed Wride along a highway Thursday, Jan. 30, 2014, and wounded another deputy during a chase that stretched over 50 miles before he was caught, Utah County Sheriff Jim Tracy said. Wride had pulled up to a car that appeared disabled near Eagle Mountain when he was ambushed around 1 p.m. Thursday, the sheriff said. Eagle Mountain is a town about 35 miles south of Salt Lake City. (AP Photo/The Deseret News, Laura Seitz) SALT LAKE TRIBUNE OUT; MAGS OUT
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This 2004 file photo shows Utah County Sheriff's Sgt. Cory Wride, in a training exercise in Provo, Utah. A man with a rifle shot and killed Wride along a highway Thursday, Jan. 30, 2014, and wounded another deputy during a chase that stretched over 50 miles before he was caught, Utah County Sheriff Jim Tracy said. Wride had pulled up to a car that appeared disabled near Eagle Mountain when he was ambushed around 1 p.m. Thursday, the sheriff said. Eagle Mountain is a town about 35 miles south of Salt Lake City. (AP Photo/The Deseret News, Laura Seitz) SALT LAKE TRIBUNE OUT; MAGS OUT
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In this undated photo provided by the Utah County Sheriff's Office shows Sgt. Cory Wride. Officials say Utah County sheriff's Sgt. Cory Wride had stopped to check on a truck that appeared to be disabled on a two-lane highway Thursday, Jan. 30, 2014. He was using his computer to do a background check when he was shot from the truck and killed. (AP Photo/Utah County Sheriff's Office)