A man has been arrested as a prime suspect in the serial killings of at least two of the four Muslim men in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
A 51-year-old Sunni Muslim named Muhammad Syed is said to have lived in southeast Albuquerque. The suspected serial killer has reportedly left Afghanistan.
According to the New York Times, Syed began targeting Muslim men out of hatred when his Sunni daughter married a Shia Muslim. However, the victim’s brother denied the theory, claiming her family was Sunni and not Shia. Albuquerque Police said Syed’s car was used to identify him. Police claimed in a statement that as they prepared to search Syed’s home Monday, “Syed drove away from the home in the Volkswagen Jetta that detectives believe was used in at least one of the murders.”
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They said, “Detectives arrested Syed and searched his home and car.” “They found additional evidence linking Syed to the deaths. Detectives found evidence suggesting the shooter knew the victims to some degree and that there may have been an interpersonal disagreement prior to the shooting.” More than 200 leads were apparently given to police.
The Albuquerque Police Department recently posted on Facebook, “Syed left his home in southeast Albuquerque in the Volkswagen Jetta that police suspect was involved in at least one of the killings as they prepared to pick it up on Sept to browse Monday. Syed was arrested by detectives, who also searched his home and car. Additional information they discovered further connected Syed to the deaths. Detectives uncovered information suggesting the shooter had some acquaintance with the victims and that there may have been an interpersonal issue that sparked the shootings.”
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Syed was charged twice with domestic violence, according to court documents obtained by The Daily Mail, but the allegations were later withdrawn. In May 2018, he was arrested and charged with “battery (household member)”. However, after he pleaded not guilty, the charges were dropped in August of that year. In December 2018, Syed was again charged with aggravated violence; However, the case was later dropped in April 2019. Maiwand, Syed’s child, claimed his father abused both his mother and him. According to the police report, the son’s head began to bleed after being hit with a metal spoon.
Syed has now been charged in two of the Albuquerque murders: the murders of Muhammad Afzaal Hussain, 27, and Aftab Hussein, 41, on August 1 and July 26, respectively. The two men who immigrated to the United States were both from Pakistan. The gun used to kill these two guys was discovered at Syed’s home, according to authorities. Mohammad Zahir Ahmadi, 62, and Naeem Hussain, 25, were the other two victims, both of Afghan descent.
Hostility among Shia Muslims is being investigated as a possible reason, according to Ahmad Assed, the president of the city’s largest mosque. Although the many branches of Islam have different views on the successor of the Prophet Muhammad, they all adhere to the same sacred text and worship the same deity. Assed remarked: “To be witnessing something as terrifying and horrific as we have witnessed over the past few weeks is absolutely mind boggling. It’s like we’re in another universe.
The hypothesis is false, according to Imtiaz Hussain, Afzaal Hussain’s brother, because his family is Sunni. “I have a Sunni Muslim brother. I am not a Shia Muslim,” explained Imtiaz, who moved to Albuquerque after working as a prosecutor in Pakistan. Therefore, I disagree with the popular belief that Muhammad Syed murdered my brother and others because his daughter married a Shia Muslim.
“My brother practiced Islam. He never carried any identification identifying him as Sunni or Shia,” he continued, saying he didn’t think his brother was acquainted with the suspect. “He visited the Islamic Center every three to four months. “Neither my brother nor I have ever met the person who killed my brother. He is 51 years old and my brother is 30 years younger; Given that age difference, they wouldn’t share many interests,” he said.
Ehsan Shahalami, his brother-in-law, explained that Naeem Hussein only recently became a citizen of the United States. That year he founded his own forwarding company. Hussein previously served as a case manager for Lutheran Family Services, where he assisted Afghan refugees who moved to the United States after the US military left the nation. While sitting in his car in a parking lot, he was shot and died.
Mohammad Ahmadi was spotted outside the cafe he owned with his brother Sharief A Hadi. Born in Afghanistan, the brother moved to the United States with his father in the early 1980s and co-owned the Ariana Halal Market & Café. After Hadi, they initially lived in Pennsylvania before moving to New Mexico.
Aftab Hussein, the victim, moved to New Mexico in 2016 and was hired as a bus driver for a neighborhood coffee shop. He and his roommates shared a second-floor apartment near the Mesa Verde Community Center. He shared with his roommates that he recently got engaged to a Pakistani woman. According to his friend Iftikhar Amirjan, he planned to travel to Pakistan and be hitchhiked there. Since then, his terrified roommates have left.
Outside his home, Muhammad Afzaal Hussain was killed. Born in Pakistan, Hussain went to the United States in 2017 to enroll in a master’s program in community and regional planning at the University of New Mexico. From 2019 to 2020 he presided over the Graduate and Professional Student Association. He worked on Rep. Melanie Stansbury’s congressional campaign before landing a job as the City of Espaola’s director of planning and land use.
Vice President Joe Biden had previously expressed his outrage at the killings on Twitter. “The brutal murders of four Muslim men in Albuquerque anger and worry me. My condolences go out to the families of the victims while we await a thorough investigation, and my government stands firmly with the Muslim community,” he said. “These heinous attacks have no place in America.”