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By Associated Press, June 16, 2008

Last updated: Monday, June 16, 2008 5:46 AM EDT

PHILADELPHIA — A young man who moved to Philadelphia with plans to teach high school math this fall was shot dead, police said Sunday.

Beau Zabel, 23, was shot in the neck around 1:30 a.m. Sunday near his home when he was walking home from a late night of work at a Starbucks. The motive appeared to be robbery, police said. No arrests were immediately made.

Zabel had especially wanted to teach in Philadelphia, according to one of his sisters, Natasha Newcomb.

“He really wanted to teach there. I’m not exactly sure why Philly was where he wanted to go, but that was the one,” Newcomb said.

Zabel’s page on the social networking Web site Facebook says he graduated from high school in Austin, Minn., and got his bachelor’s degree last year from Augustana College in Illinois. He wrote that he had been accepted into the Philadelphia Teaching Fellows program to teach in city public schools and was going to Drexel University for graduate school.