Mr. Alexis learned to speak Thai, studying at night at Happy Bowl and visiting Thailand.
Suthamtewakul and his wife, Kristi, run a Thai restaurant called Happy Bowl, where Alexis helped out regularly for several years.
Alexis worked at the Happy Bowl Thai restaurant in Fort Worth on and off for three years before the shooting.
"It gets me amped up, I guess, more excited," she said, sitting outside her brother's acai bar in Montauk, Happy Bowls.
He lived with her and her husband, Nutpisit "Oui" Suthamtewakul, and was a staple at the Thai restaurant they own, Happy Bowl.
As a matter of fact my best memories of him were him sitting at one of the tables at Happy Bowl trying to teach himself Thai".
Much of his world in White Settlement was contained in a few blocks: the Happy Bowl, the barber shop next to it, the temple and the house behind it that he rented from a member.
In Fort Worth, where he spent years in the Navy Reserve, he was described as friendly and sociable, drinking Heineken at bars with co-workers and chatting with customers at the Thai restaurant Happy Bowl, where he worked for a time.
At the temple, he met Nutpisit Suthamtewakul, who went on to open the Happy Bowl Thai restaurant in White Settlement in 2011, said the restaurant owner's cousin, Naree Wilton, 51, in a phone interview.
In Fort Worth, where he was living with Nutpisit Suthamtewakul and his wife, Kristi, the owners of Happy Bowl, he complained about his paychecks from the Experts, saying that they were late or that he was not getting paid enough.
