out the fact that this man may be a suspect or a witness, and all of the cricket victims victims were middle eastern shopkeepers. here s ray kelly talking about possible hate crimes. listen. again, that s not something that we re ruling out. we certainly have to put that on the table. we have members of our hate crimes it is task force workingn this it is task force as well. reporter: yeah. the police commissioner also added that this person he believes spent weeks casing each of these various locations because they were meticulously and methodically pulled off. he s talking about shops that all of the shopkeepers were alone at the time, that there were no surveillance cameras in any of these shops, only outside where you saw the video earlier, and in two of the three there were robberies. there were a couple other people that were seen running by, and police investigated them as well. it s not this, it s the next