Police: Three Sudanese Immigrants Shot 'Execution Style' in Indiana
Three young immigrants from Sudan 鈥撯�撀爐wo Muslims and a Christian 鈥撯�撀爓ere shot 鈥渆xecution style鈥� last week in an abandoned house in Fort Wayne, Ind., where authorities are without a motive in the killings.聽
Rusty York, the city鈥檚 public safety director, told there鈥檚 no evidence at this point to suggest the homicides on Wednesday were hate related, but the investigation remains open. Federal investigators who track possible hate crimes are involved, authorities said. 聽
Fort Wayne Police Chief Garry Hamilton told media outlets that the victims were not known gang members, but he added that it鈥檚 too early to say if their deaths were gang聽related.
The victims were identified as Mohamedtaha Omar, 23; Adam Kamel Mekki, 20, and Muhannad Adam Tairab, who was 17. 聽聽Each victim appeared to have been ordered to lie down before each was shot several times, authorities said.
Motasim Adam, founder and vice president of the Darfur People's Association, visited with the victims鈥� families over the weekend and later told that Omar and Tairab were Muslim and Mekki was Christian.
The residence where the bodies were found, just east of downtown Fort Wayne, was known as a 鈥減arty house鈥� for teens and young adults of African descent, the city鈥檚 public safety director told in Fort Wayne.
Abdelaziz Hassab, a relative of Omar and Tairab, said the young men immigrated to the United States in the past decade. 鈥淲e鈥檙e from war zones,鈥� he told reporters, explaining that he and the victims came to the United States 鈥渢o find peace and security.鈥澛�
