NY Imam Shooting Was Product of "Feud Between Muslims & Hispanics," Not "Trump's Rhetoric"

The New York Police Department has arrested and charged a 35-year-old Brooklyn man for killing an imam and his associate near a mosque on Saturday. The authorities have charged Oscar Morel with two counts of second-degree murder and two counts of criminal possession of a weapon.

Morel allegedly shot Imam Maulana Alauddin Akonjee, 55, and Thara Uddin, 54, at a close range when they were leaving Al-Fuquan Jame mosque in the Ozone Park neighborhood of Queens.

"All of a sudden I heard five shots," said a witness, "I knew it wasn't firecrackers. And then the commotion of the emergency (vehicles), and that's when I knew...When I came here, they were doing CPR to both of the people on the ground."

Although the police have not disclosed any possible motive behind the murders yet, sources claim the suspect was settling a score in a feud between the area Muslims and Hispanics.