Authorities are trying to determine whether the slayings of four Muslim men in Albuquerque, including one overnight, are connected.
Three of the killings have happened in the last two weeks, and one occurred in early November, Albuquerque police said. All four victims are Muslim men from South Asia.
Albuquerque police spokesman Gilbert Gallegos addresses the media Saturday about the slayings of four Muslim men since November.Local, county and federal officials have joined the investigation, and patrols in key areas of the city were being beefed up. “Tuesday would have marked his first-year anniversary leading the city’s planning team,” Vigil said in a statement this week. “Our city staff has lost a member of our family, and we all have lost a brilliant public servant who wanted to serve and improve his community.”
At a news conference Thursday, police alerted the Muslim community about the slayings to-date and to ask the public for assistance tracking down the killer or killers. "Right now this is an alarming death that connects to the others as far as we can tell," Gallegos said Saturday."It’s surprising this happened so soon after we spoke on Thursday."
"The lives of Albuquerque Muslims are in danger," CAIR national deputy director Edward Ahmed Mitchell said in a statement Saturday."Whoever is responsible for this horrific, hateful shooting spree must be identified and stopped — now."
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