Altaf Hussain mourns over the grave of his brother Aftab Hussein at Fairview Memorial Park in Albuquerque, NM, on August 5 Chancey Bush/The Associated Press
US President Joe Biden expressed solidarity with the Muslim community on Sunday after a fourth Muslim was killed in Albuquerque, New Mexico, in what authorities described as targeted attacks.
Biden, in a post on Twitter after news of the fourth death, said he was angry and saddened by the killings.
“While we await a full investigation, my prayers are with the families of the victims and my administration stands firmly with the Muslim community,” Biden said in a post on Twitter. “These hateful attacks don’t happen in America.”
Police in New Mexico and federal agencies were investigating the killings, the latest of which occurred Friday evening.
The three other Muslims killed in the state’s largest city in the past nine months appeared to have been targeted because of their religion and race, police said.
Two of those slain men were members of the same mosque, which were shot and killed in Albuquerque in late July and early August. Police said there was a “strong possibility” their deaths were linked to the killing of an Afghan immigrant in November.
The New Mexico State Police, the FBI and the United States Marshals Service are among the agencies assisting in the investigation.
New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham said in a post on Twitter late Saturday: “The targeted killings of Muslim residents of Albuquerque are deeply galling and totally intolerable.”
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