New Mexico

Possible serial killer targeting Muslims on the lam in New Mexico

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2 years ago

August 8, 2022

Press Room

Authorities are investigating the likelihood {that a} serial killer has been looking Muslim folks in Albuquerque, New Mexico after 4 males of the religion had been murdered there prior to now yr.

New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham stated Saturday that she deployed further state police to assist with the probe into the “focused killings.”

“The focused killings of Muslim residents of Albuquerque is deeply angering and wholly insupportable,” she wrote on Twitter.

“We is not going to cease in our pursuit of justice for the victims and their households and are bringing each useful resource to bear to apprehend the killer or killers — and we WILL discover them,” the Democrat stated in a press release.

She added: “I’m angered and saddened that that is taking place in New Mexico, a spot that prides itself on variety of tradition and thought. This isn’t who we’re.”

The assertion didn’t present particulars on whether or not investigators have any leads or affirm if the killings are linked.

An unnamed Muslim man was murdered Friday evening, following the taking pictures of Muhammad Afzaal Hussain on Monday, police stated.

Hussain’s killing comes after Aftab Hussein was murdered on July 26 and Mohammad Ahmadi was killed in November 2021.

Hussain and Hussein had been each Pakistani and went to the identical mosque, based on the New York Occasions. The slayings have prompted an outcry in Albuquerque’s close-knit Muslim neighborhood. Lower than one p.c of the 2 million folks in New Mexico are Muslim, based on the Pew Analysis Middle.

Ahmad Assed, president of the Islamic Middle of New Mexico, condemned the collection of murders towards Muslims within the Albuquerque neighborhood.

Chancey Bush/The Albuquerque Journal through AP

Mourners sprinkle dust over the grave of Muhammad Afzaal Hussain throughout his burial at Fairview Memorial Park in Albuquerque, New Mexico on Aug. 5, 2022.

“We’re extremely sickened with the concept somebody has this a lot hate towards harmless folks,” Ahmad Assed, chief of the Islamic Middle of New Mexico, stated, based on the Occasions. “We’re scared for our households, we’re scared for our kids. And we’re extremely confused about why that is taking place.”

President Biden expressed solidarity with the native Muslim neighborhood on Sunday.

“Whereas we await a full investigation, my prayers are with the victims’ households, and my administration stands strongly with the Muslim neighborhood,” Biden stated in a Twitter put up. “These hateful assaults don’t have any place in America.”