A 32-year-old man has been arrested in the stabbing of an imam at a mosque in New Jersey, according to a news release.
A 32-year-old man has been arrested in the stabbing of an imam at a mosque in New Jersey on Sunday, according to a news release from the Passaic County Prosecutor’s Office. Serif Zorba was arrested for allegedly stabbing Imam Sayed Elnakib of the Omar Mosque in Paterson, New Jersey. Elnakib, who is in stable condition, was stabbed during the first prayer of the day around 5:30 a.m. while the congregation was kneeling, mosque spokesperson Abdul Hamdan told CNN.
As they knelt down in prayer, a person wearing a hoodie in the third row moved to the front of the room, stepping over other worshippers, and then thrust his right hand into the back of the kneeling imam, the video shows. The congregation then rose together, and the assailant tried to push through the crowd and flee out of the back of the mosque, the video shows.
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