NYC imam shooting suspect caught

New York City -- An arrest was made in the shooting of an imam and his associate in the Queens neighborhood of Ozone Park. on Saturday. The shooting took place near the Al-Fuquan Jame Masjid (mosque).

The suspect was denied bail Tuesday afternoon during his first court appearance.

No motive has been revealed regarding the murders but the Muslim community want it registered as a hate crime, which has not been taken off the table by the NYPD.

Oscar Morel, 35, was taken into custody and charged with first and second-degree murder and two counts of criminal possession of a weapon. That is, the gun that he used was illegally obtained in spite of the strict NewYork City gun laws and substantiates the Second Amendment advocates who say that most urban shootings are by illegal guns, not those obtained legally.

Prosecutors said the rounds used to kill Imam Maulana Alaudding Akonjee and Thara Uddin came from the gun recovered at Morel's Brooklyn home on Monday night.  

Morel was approached by police late Sunday night while he was in a car that matched the description of an unrelated hit-and-run incident by an SUV that matched the shooting suspect's getaway vehicle.

"Detectives from the Fugitive Task Force Unit approached the car, and then he rammed the detective's car several times in an effort to get away," said Robert Boyce, the NYPD's chief of detectives. "He was placed under arrest without any further incident and brought back to the precinct for more debriefing."

The vehicle was recorded on surveillance video near the scene of the shooting and was a black GMC Trailblazer. Around 10 minutes later, a car matching the vehicle's description struck a bicyclist in Brooklyn.

When Morel was brought in for processing, he was first charged in connection to the hit-and-run, but the charges were upgraded Monday night after police found the gun and similar clothing worn by the gunman in the video.

The New York Post reported that Morel had admitted to police that he was the guy at the scene who was caught on video of sneaking up on the two men, but pulled a "Hillary" saying "I did not shoot the guy." 

On Monday morning around 1,000 people gathered at an Islamic funeral service for Akonjee, 55, and Uddin, 64. 

There were several speakers at the funeral saying that they believed (aka "felt") the victims were targeted because of their religion. Some congregants shouted, "Justice!" every so often during the service.

It is not known as to whether or not anyone from the mosque actually thanked the police for capturing the suspected killer, but that would have been a different form of justice.

New York Mayor Bill de Blasio, a staunch socialist who calls himself a Democrat, told the crowd that the entire city was "mourning with you."

Alvin Morel, the shooter's brother, told The Post that the shooting wasn't a hate crime and the hatred his brother had for Muslims after 9/11 had been "only temporary" and that he "now has no hate for Muslims."

Admittedly, he showed his indifference toward Muslims in a strange way, if he killed them for that reason.

"We're Catholic-school kids; we don't do this," Alvin said. "He's a good guy."

I don't believe that having gone to Catholic-school influenced Oscar one way or the other. 

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Muslim community blames Trump but will ISIS take the credit?

Queens, N.Y. -- An imam and his associate were shot and killed Saturday at around 2:00 p.m. after leaving the mosque where they were saying Zuhr (afternoon) prayers. The victims were identified as Imam Maulama Akonjee, 55, and Thar Uddin, 65. The imam was pronounced dead at the scene and Uddin died around 6:00 p.m. at Jamaica Hospital.

The shooter (who is likely a Donald Trump supporter according to local Muslims who don't like Trump's refusal to be politically correct) remains at large.

According to Deputy Inspector Henry Sautner of the 106th Precinct, the shooter is a "male with medium complexion, dressed in a dark polo short and shorts." Authorities said that the shooter's motive is undetermined at this time, but community Muslims are calling it a hate crime, while blaming Donald Trump and one Imam even blamed, in addition to Trump, former NYC Mayor Rudy Giuliani for the shooting.

In return, Donald Trump and Rudy Giuliani blamed the Muslim community for 9/11 and blamed Islam for terrorism and the Islamic State. However, both made it clear that Benghazi wasn't their fault--it was Hillary Clinton's fault and the deleted emails would have proved it.

Speaking on behalf of what America is all about, Khairul Islam, 33, a man who would love Sharia law to override the U.S. Constitution said, "That's not what America is about. We blame Donald Trump for this. Trump and his drama has created Islamophobia."

Click on Islamophobia for information as to how the phony term was created and why. Remember, Islamophobia is only a phobia if it's irrational. 

And if ISIS has its way, they will take credit for the shootings because the mosque [the victims attended] isn't "Islamic enough," to suit them. ISIS is "all out" for Allah and Mohammed.

Some Muslims gathered in the street chanting "This is Donald Trump's fault," and "Muslim hate crime." However, nobody who was gathered in the crowd believes that Hamas and Hezbollah are terrorist organizations or that Israel has the right to exist.

For Islam, anti-Semitism isn't a hate crime if it's part of the religion.

Witnesses who gave the NYPD leads described the shooter as a tall Hispanic man--a guy who's as likely to vote for Donald Trump as Huma Abedin. Speaking of Huma, her husband, Anthony Weiner is still having problems keeping his junk off of Twitter.

The NYPD is canvassing the area extensively looking for video clues and additional witnesses as the shooter remains at large.



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