Police believe a 65-year-old member of the Masjid Al Madinah Upper Darby Islamic Center was shot and killed during a carjacking that took place just before the day's final prayer Sunday night.
Exterior of Masjid Al Madinah, Upper Darby Islamic Center, South 69th and Walnut streets in Upper Darby. A 65-year-old man was shot and killed outside the mosque in what appears to be a carjacking.Mohammad Rahman, who worked as a correctional officer in Philadelphia, was found shot in the parking lot of the
“We do not believe and have nothing to suggest this is in any way a hate crime, or motivated by bias or based on the victim’s membership to the mosque,” he said. “We believe this was a random act of violence.”Blanche Carney, commissioner of the Philadelphia Department of Prisons, said in a statement: “The entirety of the PDP family is devastated over this unspeakable act of violence that has left one of our own dead and taken him from his family and friends.
Bernhardt, at a news briefing Monday afternoon, called the suspect a “coward” who could have just taken the vehicle but “he chose to take a life.”A South Philadelphia mosque was vandalized last week. Its leader says he’s willing to sit down with the culprit.
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