Posted on 07/27/2009 7:20:30 PM PDT by Libloather
Capital murder charge filed in Army recruit killing
By: Associated Press - Texarkana Gazette -
Published: 07/23/2009
LITTLE ROCK—Prosecutors have filed a capital murder charge against a man who confessed to killing one soldier and wounding another outside an Army recruiting center in Little Rock.
Abdulhakim Muhammad, 24, is also charged with attempted capital murder and 10 counts of firing a gun from a vehicle.
Muhammad is accused of fatally shooting Pvt. William Long, 23, of Conway and wounding Pvt. Quinton Ezeagwula of Jacksonville. Both had just finished basic training and were outside the recruiting center June 1 when Muhammad drove up, opened fire and sped away. He was arrested a short time later.
Formal charges were entered Tuesday, the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette reported.
Prosecutor Larry Jegley said Wednesday that his office may pursue the death penalty.
Federal prosecutors have also explored filing charges against Muhammad.
Officers said Muhammad told them he intended to kill as many U.S. soldiers as he could. Muhammad, a Muslim convert, told The Associated Press in two phone interviews from jail last month that he didn’t view Long’s slaying as murder given U.S. military action against Muslims.
With the formal charges, Muhammad’s case moves to circuit court, where Judge Herbert T. Wright Jr. will preside. Wright’s office said Wednesday that it had not yet received enough information to schedule Muhammad’s arraignment.
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this article made the texarkana small paper. It should have been headlined in the major papers. msm at it again.
thank you for sharing.... and hang him high, texas style
Sudden jihad syndrome strikes again.
Being tried in State Court?
>Being tried in State Court?
I would hope so.
There is no Death penalty in Federal court.
Firing squad.
MILITARY.com (AP): Little Rock, Arkansas - "SUSPECT IN GI KILLING: 'EYE FOR AN EYE'" (SNIPPET: "Muhammad told the AP he admitted to his actions to police and said he was retaliating against the U.S. military. "Yes, I did tell the police upon my arrest that this was an act of retaliation, and not a reaction on the Soldiers personally," Muhammad said. He called it "a act, for the sake of God, for the sake of Allah, the Lord of all the world, and also a retaliation on U.S. military."") (June 10, 2009)
BLACK HILLS PORTAL.com: "MEDIA BLACKOUT ON DOMESTIC TERRORIST AND FUNERAL OF WAR HERO Victim of Domestic Terrorist Laid to Rest" by Jim Kouri, CPP (SNIPPET: "There were many in attendance from the US military and the law enforcement community to pay their final respects to a fallen soldier -- the first killed on American soil by a terrorist since September 11, 2001.")
ABC NEWS.go.com - Exclusive: "FBI PROBES MUHAMMAD'S TIES TO OHIO MOSQUE FBI Wants to Know If Ohio Mosque Has Link to Terror" by Richard Esposito, Pierre Thomas and Jack Date (PAGE 2 - Snippet: "His travels to Yemen are another promising area of investigation by the FBI and to other intelligence agencies. While in Yemen it is believed that Muhammad attended the Damaj Institute, an Islamic institute attended by a number of radicalized U.S. converts, which was once attended by John Walker Lindh, the "American Taliban" captured in Afghanistan.") (June 4, 2009)
ABC NEWS.go.com: "RECRUITER SHOOTING SUSPECT UNDER FBI INVESTIGATION" by Richard Esposito, Pierre Thomas and Jack Date (SNIPPET: "The investigation was in its preliminary stages, authorities said, and was based on the suspect's travel to Yemen and his arrest there for using a Somali passport." SNIPPET: "According to sources, the suspect advised them that he was going to kill as many Army personnel as possible.") (June 1, 2009)
KATV.com: Little Rock, Arkansas - "SHOOTER, VICTIMS IDENTIFIED IN WEST LR SHOOTING" (SNIPPET: "At a briefing Monday afternoon, Little Rock police chief Stuart Thomas identified the suspect as Abdul Hakim Mujahid Muhammad, 24, of Little Rock. Thomas says Muhammad also goes by the name Carlos Bledsoe.") (Posted June 1, 2009, 3:17 pm)
McVeigh was executed by the Feds, but I’m pretty sure he’s the only one.
Judge Issac Parker, where are you when we need you?
No, the Feds have the Death Penalty. McVeigh was executed in Federal Prison.
My point is one would think a muslim terror attack here at home would warrant Federal intervention..
VEry good points.
I forgot about Mcveigh.
I remember that when John Hinckley was convicted that there was buzz about the Feds being unable to push for a death sentence in any case, so I guess something has changed.
I agree.
Arkansas Ping!
Bring him here to Fort Smith, we still have a gallows (okay, so it’s a replica of the one Judge Parker had used)...we’ll take care of it.
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