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| Suspect charged in daylight slaying of New York imam and friend | |
| 2016-08-16 | |
[IsraelTimes] A man suspected in the fatal shooting of a holy man and his friend as they left a mosque in New York City was tossed in the slammerYou have the right to remain silent... on charges of second-degree murder and criminal possession of a weapon late Monday. Charges against 35-year-old Oscar Morel, of Brooklyn, were upgraded after police say they recovered a revolver at his home and clothes similar to that being worn in surveillance video that shows the gunman. Morel was arrested Sunday after police said he hit a bicyclist 10 minutes after Saturday’s shooting in Queens, amid wide-ranging suspicions he had also shot Imam Maulana Alauddin Akonjee and Thara Uddin in broad daylight. "We strongly believe this is the individual," the New York Police Department’s chief of detectives, Robert Boyce, said of Morel after the initial arrest was announced. Authorities have not said what prompted the daytime shooting of Akonjee and Uddin. According to police, Morel can be seen on video surveillance fleeing the area of the shooting in a black GMC Trailblazer just after Akonjee and Uddin were shot. About 10 minutes later, a car matching that description struck a bicyclist about three miles away in Brooklyn, Boyce said. Morel was arrested late Sunday night outside a Brooklyn apartment after intentionally ramming his car into an unmarked police cruiser trying to block him in, Boyce said.
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| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #5 Yes Glen, rare even in the vicinity of Lake Woebegone. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2016-08-16 20:09 |
| #4 I thought morel was a fungus? |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2016-08-16 17:28 |
| #3 Not that it matters but Morel is a French surname and France has had issues with the Islamic folks lately. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2016-08-16 17:13 |
| #2 and criminal possession of a weapon Nuff said. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2016-08-16 08:10 |
| #1 Morel was arrested Sunday after police said he hit a bicyclist 10 minutes after Saturday’s shooting in Queens, amid wide-ranging suspicions he had also shot Imam Maulana Alauddin Akonjee and Thara Uddin in broad daylight. Now there's a blurry distinction here as to whether a crime was actually committed. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2016-08-16 00:34 |