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Teenage Muslim Girl Assaulted and Murdered Near MosquePublished June 19th, 2017 - 19:00 GMT via SyndiGate.infoA possible hate-crime motivation is among the things authorities are investigating. (twitter)Police in the US state of Virginia found the remains of a missing Muslim teenager who was assaulted and disappeared overnight after leaving a mosque with her friends in the Sterling area, a statement said on Sunday.Fairfax County police found the body of 17-year-old Nabra Hassanen in a pond on Sunday afternoon.Police charged 22-year-old Darwin Martinez Torres with murder.The girl had been walking with friends when she got into a dispute with a man in a car early on Sunday, police spokeswoman Tawny Wright said. The man assaulted her and she became separated from her friends.Police said they arrested Torres after a search.Continued: https://www.albawaba.com/news/teenage-muslim-girl-assaulted-and-murdered-near-mosque-988208
Questions raised after police rule Muslim American teen's murder as 'road rage'Nabra Hassanen was murdered after leaving a mosque in the early hours of Sunday, but authorities ruled out hate as a motive...Hassanen, 17, was an apparent victim of "road rage," police said.According to accounts by Hassanen’s friends, reported by Buzzfeed, the teenager was leaving the mosque with her friends when an altercation ensued between them and the suspect who was in his car and appeared drunk.Torres reportedly chased the teenagers, some of whom were riding bicycles, with his car. When Torres was out of the car, he reportedly struck Hassanen with a baseball bat, and then allegedly kidnapped and murdered her....“I think it had to do with the way she was dressed and the fact that she’s Muslim,” Gazzar told the Washington Post. “Why would you kill a kid? What did my daughter do to deserve this?”The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) urged a hate crime probe into the incident. ...http://www.middleeasteye.net/news/questions-raised-after-police-rule-muslim-american-teens-murder-road-rage-994239707
