Police Charged Imam Shooting Suspect With Murder

Police charged a man late Monday night with a murder case in the brazen daytime shooting of an imam and his friend which resulted to their death as they left a mosque in Queens mosque over the weekend.

Oscar morel,35,was arrested and charged with a second-degree murder and possession of criminal weapon,police said.

Charges against morel was upgraded after police said they recover a revolver at his home and clothes similar to those being worn in a surveillance video.

He was taken to custody on Sunday after police said he hit a bicycle ten minute after the shooting in Queens on Saturday.it wasn't immediately cleared if he had an attorney who can comment on the charges.

Morel,who was seen on the surveillance video when fleeing the area of the shooting in a black GMC Trailblazer after the incident,the new York police department of detectives,Robert Boyce said.

"About ten minute later, a vehicle matching that description struck a bicycle about three miles away in Brooklyn."

Morel,was arrested late Sunday night outside a Brooklyn apartment after intentionally jamming  his car into an unmarked police vehicle trying to block him in,Boyce said.

The arrest was announced  after about 1,000 Muslims gathered under tent to praise Akonjee,55 and Udin,64,in an islamic funeral service where emotions ran high.

The ceremony featured several speakers who said they believed the victims were targeted because of their religion.some members of the congregation shouted "justice"periodically throughout the service.

After the service,part of the crowd marched to the spot where the shooting took place.

Mayor Bill De Blasio, told those that gathered "the entire city was mourning with you".

Authorities did not revealed while the shooting took place,though Boyce said the possibility that the murder were a hate crime is "certainly on the table ".

Some in largely Bangladesh Muslim community in Queens and Brooklyn have describe harassment in recent month by the people who shouted anti-Muslim epithet.

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