An arrest tonight for the murder of an imam and his associate shot execution style tonight. Moments ago oscar morel of brooklyn walked out of the precinct in queens charged with Second Degree murder and criminal possession of a murder in connection to the shooting. New information on how cops pinned the murders on mr. Morel. What might be more interesting in this particular case is what hes not charged with. 35yearold oscar morel not charged with a hate crime, though police will not might have been for shooting and killing a popular imam and his friend. Reporter police found the handgun they believe was used to kill a popular imam and his friend. They prayed tonight after 55yearold Imam Maulama Akonjee and 64yearold thara uddin were gunned down in a cold blooded quiet neighborhood. The murder shows a man walking up from behind and firing. Now Police Believe they have the man and the gun he used. Were looking at him for both crimes, for the homicide and that. Reporter a few minutes afte
Connection to the shooting. New information on how cops pinned the murders on mr. Morel. What might be more interesting in this particular case is what hes not charged with. 35yearold oscar morel not charged with a hate crime, though police will not say what his motive might have been for shooting and killing a popular imam and his friend. Reporter police found the believe was used to kill a popular imam and his friend. They prayed tonight after 55yearold Imam Maulama Akonjee and 64yearold thara uddin were gunned down in a cold blooded murder that has shocked this quiet neighborhood. The murder shows a man walking up from behind and firing. Now Police Believe they have the crimes, for the homicide and that. Reporter a few minutes after the imam and his friend were murdered at 79th and liberty in queens, there was a hitandrun at pine streak and pitkin avenue in brooklyn. The war going the wrong way down pine street. Take a look at this Surveillance Video just beyond the two men in the u
Jose. Witnesses say two brothers were shot and killed in front of their home near south 8th and Market Streets and tonight police are looking for the shooter. Lilian kim is live at the scene. Lilian . It appears to have been a drive by. San jose police are here trying to piece together the sequence of events. The two brothers believed to be in their 20s and 30s were in their home when two separate vehicles pulled up. The people inside the vehicles opened fire. Each brother was shot at least once. One was pronounced dead at the scene and the vekd the second victim was pronounced dead a short time later. Police are trying to determine a motive. We spoke to one neighbor who heard six gunshots before looking out his window. Thats when he saw the two vehicles pull up followed by more gunshots. And i saw a white truck coming toward my house followed by a black suv. They made a u it up on martha and went back the other way. It looks like they meant business. I looked out the window and i saw
Your realtime captioner is linda marie macdonald. Right now a body near a baseball field. A man speaks out about making a very dispushing disturbing discovery. And what lochte regrets a storm is bringing flooding sunday. Good evening. Thank you for joining us. Im jessica moore. A park on long island turns into a crime scene after a body was found near a baseball field. Now were hearing from a man who made that gruesome discovery. Ali bauman is live in greenlawn with the latest on the investigation. Ali. Reporter jessica, the park is basically pitch black here so when the sun rose the next morning stroll, discovered a dead body just under that tree. Taking his routine walks through Greenlawn Park Early Saturday Morning mike and his dog sunny made a gruesome discovery. He looked like he had sneakers on and his feet were pointing towards the pitchers mound. Reporter a mans body blow this tree that Suffolk County police are investigating as a homicide. They say he had cuts and slashes all
That breaking news in connecticut. In the last hour, we have learned that 13 people were injured when two gunman opened fire on a house party in bridgeport. Police say the suspects fired from behind a hedge in the backyard of the plymouth street home just before 1 30 this morning. 12 victims suffered nonlife threatening injuries. However, one woman is in Critical Condition after getting shot in the face. We will continue to follow that story throughout the day. Police are looking for the shooter who opened fire on a street in harlem, killing a 61 yearold woman who Police Believe was simply an innocent bystander. Eyewitness news reporter, Kristin Thorne is live on the scene with what we know at this hour. Kristen. Reporter rob, we just spoke with a man who was sitting next to december yeah sims when the night. She stayed out, and shots rang out around 11 45 last night. The 61yearold odessa sims was struck by a bullet in her neck. She was rushed to harlem hospital where she was pronounce