Muhammad Syed, who attended the same mosque as the victims, at the Islamic Center of New Mexico, was arrested and charged with three of the murders and is a suspect in the fourth.
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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) The Afghan refugee with a "violent history" pleaded not guilty on Friday for three counts of murder against Muslim men in New Mexico.
It was 1 o’clock in the morning when Muhammad Atif Syed, his wife and six children arrived at the Albuquerque International Sunport as Afghan refugees in 2016.They were tired from the long journey but as their case manager tried to help the family load their luggage into a minivan, Syed began to argue with him.“I have to see you face to face to show you the way he did it – just like to simplify it, like, ‘You don’t tell me what to do, wait for me to, I’ll get my luggage,'” Mazin Kadhim, a former case manager with Lutheran Family Services recalled. “And I was like, ‘Oh, I’m sorry, you know, I’m not trying to do anything offending you. I’m trying to serve you actually.'”