NY man charged with fatally shooting U.S. Imam and friend

Posted by | August 16, 2016 07:54 | Filed under: News Behaving Badly


A New York man has been charged with the double murder of a Imam and his friend, in a brutal daylight slaying that has shocked Muslim communities across the US. Police said late on Monday that Oscar Morel, 35, was charged with two counts of second-degree murder over the deaths of Imam Maulama Akonjee, 55, and…

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12 responses to NY man charged with fatally shooting U.S. Imam and friend

  1. Mike August 16th, 2016 at 08:23

    No mention of motive…

  2. Obewon August 16th, 2016 at 09:30

    “There are voices all over this country who are spewing hate, trying to create division and turn one American against another … we’re not going to listen to those voices that try to divide us,” NYC Mayor de Blasio said. Love trumps hate!

    NY Daily News reported the double killers brother in NYC said; “The only time we felt, everybody in New York felt, a hatred, was during 9/11. Other than that, we never felt a hatred with nobody.” “GOD help my brother mother father and myself,” he said. http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/queens/killer-queens-imam-friend-charged-murder-article-1.2751802
    As a 9/11 WTC survivor I instead reflected on karma caused by U.S. Vietnam war deaths.

  3. Mensa Member August 16th, 2016 at 10:48

    Looking at his photo, it’s hard to guess at his ethnicity. He doesn’t look northern European but who knows?

    But, whether this specific instance is radical Christian terrorism or not, Trump and conservative anti-Muslim rhetoric is going to get people murdered. It already has.

    • majii August 16th, 2016 at 16:53

      I read about him on the site heavydotcom, and according to his brother, Alvin, they’re Catholics.

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