Here are photos from the funeral of the Imam and his assistant who were brutally killed in New York on Saturday, August 13. The imam of a mosque in New York City and his associate were shot dead while walking along together following afternoon prayers…The men were approached by a man from behind and shot both in the head on Saturday in the Ozone Park neighbourhood of Queens….
Meanwhile, Police have arrested and charged a man with murder late Monday night in the brazen daytime shooting deaths of an imam and his friend as they left a New York City mosque. Oscar Morel, 35, was charged with two counts of second-degree murder and two counts of criminal possession of a weapon, police said. .
Morel was taken into custody late Sunday night for hitting a bicyclist with his SUV just 10 minutes after Saturday’s shooting in Queens, said the New York Police Department’s chief of detectives, Robert Boyce, at a news conference Monday.
Police said they “strongly believed” he was the same person who killed Imam Maulana Alauddin Akonjee and Thara Uddin.
