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LBN thread: Officials: 17-year-old Muslim girl assaulted and killed after leaving Virginia mosque
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Source: Reuters
U.S. | Mon Jun 19, 2017 | 1:15pm EDT
Police say Muslim girl's killing near Virginia mosque was not hate crime
A man accused of killing a teenage Muslim girl appeared in a Virginia court on Monday morning to face a murder charge, the court clerk's office said, as police said the killing was not being investigated as a hate crime.
Darwin Martinez Torres, 22, was in his car when he got into a dispute with the 17-year-old girl and a group of her friends before dawn on Sunday in Sterling in Northern Virginia, about 30 miles (48 km) outside Washington, according to the Fairfax County Police Department. Martinez got out of the car and assaulted the girl, police said.
The girl and her friends were to have their last meal at a nearby International House of Pancakes, a fast-food chain, before fasting for Ramadan, the Washington Post reported.
Her friends sought help at a nearby mosque, the All Dulles Area Muslim Society (ADAMS), the mosque said in a statement. The mosque added extra overnight prayers sessions during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, when devout Muslims fast from dawn to sunset.
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Police say Muslim girl's killing near Virginia mosque was not hate crime
A man accused of killing a teenage Muslim girl appeared in a Virginia court on Monday morning to face a murder charge, the court clerk's office said, as police said the killing was not being investigated as a hate crime.
Darwin Martinez Torres, 22, was in his car when he got into a dispute with the 17-year-old girl and a group of her friends before dawn on Sunday in Sterling in Northern Virginia, about 30 miles (48 km) outside Washington, according to the Fairfax County Police Department. Martinez got out of the car and assaulted the girl, police said.
The girl and her friends were to have their last meal at a nearby International House of Pancakes, a fast-food chain, before fasting for Ramadan, the Washington Post reported.
Her friends sought help at a nearby mosque, the All Dulles Area Muslim Society (ADAMS), the mosque said in a statement. The mosque added extra overnight prayers sessions during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, when devout Muslims fast from dawn to sunset.
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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-virginia-crime-idUSKBN19A232
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Police say Muslim girl's killing near Virginia mosque was not hate crime (Original Post)
Eugene
Jun 2017
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sinkingfeeling
(51,473 posts)1. Unless they were dating, it was a hate crime. The punk obviously
hates women who argue back and probably has a dislike for Muslims as well.
ck4829
(35,091 posts)2. Just a random thing?
He just randomly hit a very obvious Muslim girl with a baseball and bat and then randomly dumped her body in a pond.
That sounds legit.
luvMIdog
(2,533 posts)3. he kills a random woman in a group of other women with a baseball bat - right
he was probably yelling insults at them and they yelled back. It happens all the fucking time to these women
PoiBoy
(1,542 posts)4. If it's classified as a hate crime.. does the FBI get involved..?
The PD is calling it a road rage event..? Perhaps the Fairfax County Police Department wants nothing to do with the Feds....??