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New Mexico mosque president speaks out on Albuquerque killings 04:07
A well-liked city worker who had aspirations of a future in politics and a proud new US citizen were among the victims of a spree of shootings police say may be related.
The killings of Mohammad Ahmadi, Muhammad Afzaal Hussain, Aftab Hussein and Naeem Hussain have one obvious commonality though: They were all South Asian Muslims, according to Albuquerque police.
The three most recent killings happened within the span of two weeks, with local and national Muslim groups warning residents to remain vigilant. They also put a spotlight on an unsolved homicide from November 2021.
On Tuesday, police a nnounced they had arrested 51-year-old Muhammad Syed, saying they would be charging him with two of the homicides: the July 26 killing of Aftab Hussein and the August 1 killing of Muhammad Afzaal Hussain.
As for the two other killings, police said there is evidence that Syed as the "most likely person of interest or suspect" in those as well, Kyle Hartsock, deputy commander of the city police department's criminal investigations division said.
According to the criminal complaint, Syed denied any involvement in the killings during an interview with police on Tuesday.
Here's what we know about the lives lost. CNN will continue to update this story with more details as we learn them:
Mohammad Ahmadi was shot and killed outside of a business he and his brother ran together in November 2021, according to CNN affiliate KOAT .
Ahmadi was from Afghanistan, police said.
Muhammad Imtiaz Hussain had been living with his brother, Muhammad Afzaal Hussain, in the same apartment complex for almost five years and had never had any problems.
The brothers came to the US on student visas, studying at the University of New Mexico, and they would often take early morning or late night walks to the university library without any fear for their safety -- until now.
On August 1, police got a call about a drive-by shooting near the intersection of Cornell Drive and Garfield Avenue. They found Muhammad Afzaal Hussain with multiple gunshot wounds, according to a criminal complaint obtained from CNN affiliate KOAT.
His face was distorted from gunshot wounds, his brother Imtiaz Hussain said.
"This is not a random killing," Hussain said. "This is extremely motivated and extreme hatred."
Afzaal Hussain was loved by everyone and a student leader excited for a future in politics once he gained US citizenship.
"We are in extreme fear," Imtiaz Hussain said. "Living in this place is very painful."
Hussain worked on the planning team for the city of Española. He had studied law and human resource management at the University of Punjab in Pakistan before receiving both master's and bachelor's degrees in community and regional planning from the University of New Mexico, according to a news release from Española Mayor John Ramon Vigil.
"Muhammad was soft-spoken and kind, and quick to laugh," Vigil said in a news release last Wednesday. "He was well-respected and well-liked by his coworkers and members of the community."
Naeem Hussain, 25, had been a US citizen for less than a month when he was found by Albuquerque police officers just before midnight Friday.
His brother-in-law Ehsan Shahalami identified Hussian to CNN on Sunday and said he had migrated as a refugee from Pakistan in 2016 -- fleeing persecution as a Shia Muslim .
"He had a lot of dreams and he accomplished some of them," Shahalami said. "His others were cut short by this heinous act."
Hours before his own death, Hussain attended a funeral for two of the recent victims and expressed concern about the shootings, said Tahir Gauba, spokesperson for the Islamic Center of New Mexico.
Hussain worked as a truck driver for several years from Albuquerque, a job he took immense pride in, according to Shahalami.
"He was not even a citizen at the time but he would say, 'This is our country, these people need us more than any other time,' so he drove extra shifts to keep things rolling," Shahalami said.
After becoming a US citizen, Hussain opened his own trucking business, had plans to bring over his wife from Pakistan and was interested in buying property in Virginia, according to Shahalami.
"He was the most generous, kind, giving, patient, and down-to-earth person that I could ever meet," he said. "He was very hard working."
Hussain wasn't just working to support himself -- he would share his earnings with family back home, Shahalami said.
After the funerals Friday, Gauba said, Hussain attended a lunch at the mosque and approached him asking if he had more information on the shootings.
"We (The Islamic Center of New Mexico) thought after burial of these two young men (on Friday), we would have closure and move on and let law enforcement investigate," Gauba said. "Waking up Saturday morning to his (Naeem Hussain) death, the whole community just feels helpless. There's a lot of fear."
About 700 to 800 Muslims on Fridays attend the Islamic Center of New Mexico, the largest mosque in Albuquerque founded in the mid-1970s, according to Gauba.
Aftab Hussein was found with multiple gunshot wounds, lying next to a car on Rhode Island Street on July 26.
Detectives learned that a gunman had waited behind a bush near the driveway where the victim usually parks his vehicle and then fired through the bush multiple times when Hussein got out of his vehicle, according to the complaint.
He was a Muslim man from Pakistan, police said.
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(CNN) After ambush-style shootings of three Muslim men and the killing of a fourth on Friday in Albuquerque, the Muslim community was on edge and fearful.
CNN's Nouran Salahieh contributed to this report.

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Yet another instance of Islamophobia in America.
The unidentified man can be heard yelling "Kill the Muslims" and "Bury them all" in the video. The woman who filmed the video said he attempted to hit some people. America has seen a sharp uptick in anti-Muslim hate crimes since last year's Paris terrorist attacks.
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In yet another incident of harassment and intimidation aimed at the American Muslim community, a man in Michigan has been filmed yelling Islamophobic obscenities while chanting the name "Trump!"
This just happened right in front of my eyes. A group of muslims preaching knowledge and this guy walks by and just...
The video, posted to Facebook on Sunday by Candy Velenzuela, shows an unidentified man in downtown Grand Rapids yelling "Kill Muslims," "Kill them all" and "Bury the Muslims" several times as he walks away from a group of men preaching on the sidewalk. He then turns back, pumps his fist several times and yells "Trump! Trump! Trump!"
In the video description, Valenzuela said the group was "preaching knowledge." Photos of the group taken by bystander Ariel Carrillo show five men holding signs with religious messages on them and carrying books.
"After the video he actually walked by them, tried to swing, missed and fell," she wrote.
A photo taken by Carillo appears to show the man from the video with blood on his face, though it is not clear whose blood it is.
Although the man initially told police the "protesters" assaulted him, security camera footage revealed otherwise, a spokesman for the Grand Rapids Police Department said.
"The gentleman [in the video] was accusing that he was assaulted by the protesters," Sgt. Terry Dixon said. "The truth is we have video showing that he was the instigator."
The incident is still under investigation and no arrests have been made, Dixon said.
Valenzuela could not be reached for comment.
The Huffington Post has kept a running tally of Islamophobic acts in America since the Paris terrorist attacks last year amid data that shows a sharp uptick in hate crimes against American Muslims and mosques.
This isn't the first incident of anti-Muslim violence in Michigan in recent months. In December, a clerk at a party store in Grand Rapids was shot in the face by a robber who called the Punjabi man a "terrorist" and a member of the Islamic State.
Islamophobia has also become a mainstay on the Donald Trump campaign trail alongside the GOP front-runner's own calls to ban all Muslims from entering the U.S. In January, a silently protesting Muslim woman was escorted from a rally for the real estate magnate.
Editor's note: Donald Trump regularly incites political violence and is a serial liar , rampant xenophobe , racist , misogynist and birther who has repeatedly pledged to ban all Muslims -- 1.6 billion members of an entire religion -- from entering the U.S.

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Authorities are investigating the possibility that a serial killer has been hunting Muslim people in Albuquerque, New Mexico after four men of the faith were murdered there in the past year.
New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham said Saturday that she deployed additional state police to help with the probe into the “targeted killings.”
“The targeted killings of Muslim residents of Albuquerque is deeply angering and wholly intolerable,” she wrote on Twitter.
“We will not stop in our pursuit of justice for the victims and their families and are bringing every resource to bear to apprehend the killer or killers — and we WILL find them,” the Democrat said in a statement.
She added: “I am angered and saddened that this is happening in New Mexico, a place that prides itself on diversity of culture and thought. This is not who we are.”
The statement did not provide details on whether investigators have any leads or confirm if the killings are connected.
An unnamed Muslim man was murdered Friday night, following the shooting of Muhammad Afzaal Hussain on Monday, police said.
Hussain’s killing comes after Aftab Hussein was murdered on July 26 and Mohammad Ahmadi was killed in November 2021.
Hussain and Hussein were both Pakistani and went to the same mosque, according to the New York Times . The slayings have prompted an outcry in Albuquerque’s close-knit Muslim community. Less than one percent of the two million people in New Mexico are Muslim, according to the Pew Research Center .
“We are incredibly sickened with the idea that someone has this much hate against innocent people,” Ahmad Assed, leader of the Islamic Center of New Mexico, said, according to the Times. “We’re scared for our families, we’re scared for our children. And we are incredibly confused about why this is happening.”
President Biden expressed solidarity with the local Muslim community on Sunday.
“While we await a full investigation, my prayers are with the victims’ families, and my administration stands strongly with the Muslim community,” Biden said in a Twitter post. “These hateful attacks have no place in America.”

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