Photos From The Funeral Of Imam and His Friend Who Were Shot Dead In New York

Here are photos from the funeral of the Imam and his assistant who were brutally killed in New York on Saturday, August 13.

 The imam of a mosque in New York City and his associate were shot dead while walking along together following afternoon prayers...


The men were approached by a man from behind and shot both in the head on Saturday in the Ozone Park neighbourhood of Queens....

Meanwhile, Police have arrested and charged a man with murder late Monday night in the brazen daytime shooting deaths of an imam and his friend as they left a New York City mosque. Oscar Morel, 35, was charged with two counts of second-degree murder and two counts of criminal possession of a weapon, police said. 

Morel was taken into custody late Sunday night for hitting a bicyclist with his SUV just 10 minutes after Saturday’s shooting in Queens, said the New York Police Department’s chief of detectives, Robert Boyce, at a news conference Monday. Police said they “strongly believed” he was the same person who killed Imam Maulana Alauddin Akonjee and Thara Uddin.