Albuquerque Police Chief Harold Medina is as soon as once more urging the town’s Muslim group to be on guard after one other Muslim man was discovered lifeless Saturday. He's the fourth to be killed within the New Mexico metropolis in comparable circumstances since November 2021.
Police say they've purpose to imagine the murders had been allegedly dedicated by the identical particular person or individuals. The latest killing got here simply two days after the Albuquerque Police Division held a press convention with the FBI to announce the doable connection.
Whereas authorities have declined to disclose any particular proof, they level to the truth that the entire victims shared a typical race and faith.
“Our metropolis has suffered one other tragic loss in a single day. One other younger man who was a part of the Muslim group was murdered. As with the earlier three murders we talked about on Thursday, there’s purpose to imagine this loss of life is expounded to these shootings,” Medina stated at a information convention Saturday afternoon.
“We have to ask the Muslim group particularly to be vigilant. Be careful for each other. For those who see one thing, say one thing,” he stated.
Town was ramping up patrols in response to the violence. Along with FBI help, officers from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms and the U.S. Marshals Service are serving to with the investigation. Police are additionally consulting with leaders from the Albuquerque Islamic Middle, they stated.
Requested whether or not he would say there was a serial killer on the free, Gilbert Gallegos, the Albuquerque Police Division communications director, stated it was too early to make use of the phrase. Nor might Gallegos say but whether or not the homicides certified as hate crimes.
Police didn't instantly launch the identify of the person who died most lately, or his method of loss of life.
However they stated on Thursday that each one three earlier murders had been shootings, and the victims had been ambushed.
Mohammad Ahmadi, 62, was shot within the head again on Nov. 7 and located within the car parking zone of the halal grocery retailer and cafe he co-owned along with his brother. The siblings had fled Afghanistan within the Eighties, the Albuquerque Journal reported.
Aftab Hussein, 41, was additionally initially from Afghanistan and died from gunshot wounds on the night of July 26. His co-workers at Flying Star, a neighborhood restaurant chain, informed native information station KRQE that he was a “hard-working jokester with a coronary heart of generosity” who as soon as put all the information he earned over two weeks in a donation jar for a co-worker in want. He was planning to get married and construct a life in New Mexico, his co-workers stated.
Muhammad Afzaal Hussain, 27, was shot within the head within the car parking zone outdoors his condo constructing on Aug. 1. He got here to the U.S. from Pakistan in 2017 to get his grasp’s diploma in group planning from the College of New Mexico, the Albuquerque Journal reported. Two years later, Hussain was elected president of the Graduate and Skilled Scholar Affiliation. On the time of his loss of life, he was working in native authorities within the city of Española the place co-workers known as him a “rising star,” native information station KOB4 reported.
A spokesman for the Albuquerque Islamic Middle, Tahir Gauba, informed The Santa Fe New Mexican, a neighborhood newspaper, that the killings had set individuals on edge.
“We have now by no means felt this a lot worry in [our] group,” Gauba informed the outlet. “I’ve by no means seen this a lot worry inside my family.”
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