You don’t walk up behind someone, even from 5 feet, and just get two head shots. “Why did they kill my father?”
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US media reported that the men were shot after leaving the Al-Furqan Jame Masjid mosque after Saturday afternoon prayers, dressed in traditional Muslim garb.
Uddin leaves behind a wife and four children.
The Associated Press reported Protestants’ statements; they considered this a hate crime.
He was to return to Bangladesh in a little more than a week to attend his son’s wedding. “There’s so much crying”.
“He would not hurt a fly”, Imam Akonjee’s nephew Rahi Majid, told the New York Daily News.
Trump’s campaign said in a statement that it was “highly irresponsible” to blame a political candidate for the violent attacks.
Following terroristic attacks carried out by radical Muslims, Trump has said he would ban people of the religion from entering the country and that he would create a database of Muslims.
“It’s a crime against humanity”, said Kobir Chowdhury, president of Masjid Al-Aman in Brooklyn. “They just didn’t know how to tell her. now, she’s very emotional”.
“Please, read my lips”.
Police said Saturday that they had no reason to believe the murders constituted a hate crime, telling reporters that it might have been a botched robbery.
“Killing people brutally, like they’re an animal”.
“We’re scared now to walk in the street”, said Gousuddin Khan, who worships at the mosque.
“It’s really threatening to us, threatening to our future, threatening to our mobility in our neighbourhood, and we’re looking for justice”. Eyewitness News has obtained surveillance video showing the shooting: Both men were wearing traditional religious attire and Akonjee was carrying about $1,000 in cash but the money was not taken.
The Council on American-Islamic Relations, or CAIR, planned to announce on Monday a $10,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the shooter.
“The perpetrator of these senseless killings must be swiftly apprehended and face the full force of the law”, said CAIR-NY Executive Director Afaf Nasher.
The Daily News reports, “The killer. may have been settling a score in a feud between Muslims and Hispanics, police sources said early Monday”.
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio condemned the shootings.
“When religious leaders are targeted, we all bear the pain those in Ozone Park feel most personally today”, said the mayor.
Police later said the imam, Maulana Akonjee, 55, and Thara Uddin, 64, were fatally wounded.
The suspect then shoots both of the men.
Police found them bleeding in the street and took them to a hospital where they were pronounced dead.
“During the foot pursuit, one officer shot one suspect, armed with a semiautomatic handgun” who died at the scene, the Milwaukee police department said.
A sketch of the suspected gunman..
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Local police have released a sketch of a male suspect with dark hair, a beard and glasses.
