Three young Muslim Americans murdered in ‘execution-style’ killings in Indiana
Three young Muslim Americans have been found dead in what appears to be an ‘execution style’
Three young Muslim Americans have been found dead in what appears to be an ‘execution style’ killing in an abandoned house in Indiana.
The bodies of MohamedTaha Omar, Adam Mekki, and Muhannad Tairab were discovered on 24 February in a house in Fort Wayne with ‘multiple’ gunshot wounds in what Public Safety Director Rusty York described as an “execution-style” shooting.
Mr. York said police had “no reason to believe this is any type of hate crime or focus because of their religion or nationality”, CNN reported.
The murders come one year after the notorious Chapel Hill shooting, in which three Muslims were gunned down in their home in North Carolina, and among increasing Islamophobic violence in the US, although the murders are not currently being investigated as a hate crime.
US media coverage of the shootings has been criticized, as the murders of the three men, who police said were from east African families, did not receive as much attention as a number of other murders that took place in the same week.
