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New Mexico law enforcement have detained a person whom they have identified as their “primary suspect” in the fatal shootings of four Muslim men in Albuquerque over the past nine months, officials announced on Tuesday.
“We tracked down the vehicle believed to be involved in a recent murder of a Muslim man in Albuquerque,” the Albuquerque Police Department announced in a tweet Tuesday. “The driver was detained and he is our primary suspect for the murders.”
Police said they expect to provide additional information later on Tuesday.
Four men — all from South Asia and all of whom practice the Muslim faith — have been ambushed, shot and killed in Albuquerque since November 2021, police have said.
ALBUQUERQUE MURDERS: MUSLIM COMMUNITY TO SEE INCREASED POLICE PRESENCE AMID MANHUNT FOR SUSPECT
Albuquerque Police Deputy Chief of Investigations Cecily Barker holds a flyer with photos of a car wanted in connection with Muslim men murdered as Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham looks on in Albuquerque, New Mexico, Sunday, Aug. 7, 2022.
(Adolphe Pierre-Louis/Albuquerque Journal via AP)
Tuesday marked four days since police received word of their most recent murder. Naeem Hussain, a Muslim man from Pakistan, was discovered fatally wounded in the area of Truman Street and Grand Avenue just before midnight on Friday, police said.
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On Aug. 1, the third victim, local city planner Muhammad Afzaal Hussain, 27, was gunned down, police said. And before then, 41-year-old Aftab Hussein was fatally wounded on July 26, 2022.
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Both men were killed near Central Avenue in southeast Albuquerque, police said. Both were also Muslim and from Pakistan.
And the earliest incident was reported on Nov. 7, 2021, when 62-year-old…
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