Police in New Mexico and federal companies had been probing the murders of 4 Muslim males to find out if the killings, the newest of which occurred on Friday night, had been linked whereas the state’s governor described them as “targeted killings.”
Albuquerque Police Chief Harold Medina informed reporters on Saturday {that a} “young man who is part of the Muslim community was murdered.”
The sufferer’s identify and the circumstances of the homicide weren’t disclosed. In the earlier three instances, the victims had been ambushed and shot with out warning, police stated.
Medina stated the killing was probably linked to the earlier three murders.
Police in New Mexico had stated earlier that the opposite three Muslim males murdered within the state’s largest metropolis up to now 9 months appeared to have been focused for his or her faith and race.
“The targeted killings of Muslim residents of Albuquerque is deeply angering and wholly intolerable,” New Mexico Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham tweeted late on Saturday. She additionally stated she was deploying further state law enforcement officials to Albuquerque to help within the investigation.
The focused killings of Muslim residents of Albuquerque is deeply angering and wholly insupportable.
I’m sending extra State Police officers to Albuquerque to work in shut coordination with APD and the FBI to deliver the killer or killers to justice – and so they WILL be discovered.
— Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham (@GovMLG) August 6, 2022
Two of these murdered males had been members of the identical mosque, who had been shot useless in Albuquerque in late July and early August. Police stated there was a “strong possibility” their deaths had been related to the November killing of an Afghan immigrant.
Muhammad Afzaal Hussain, 27, a planning director for town of Espanola who got here to the United States from Pakistan, was shot useless on Monday exterior his Albuquerque condominium complicated whereas Aftab Hussein, 41, was discovered useless of gunshot wounds on July 26 close to the Albuquerque’s worldwide district.
Those deaths are possible linked to the capturing of 62-year-old Mohammad Ahmadi in a car parking zone by a halal grocery store and cafe on Nov 7 final 12 months, police stated.
New Mexico State Police, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the US Marshals Service are amongst a number of companies concerned in probing the murders.
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With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
