Not quite. From this MSNBC story:
In the more affluent neighborhood near Tacoma Mall where Muhammad lived with his wife and three children from 1994 until he moved out in 2000, neighbors said what drew their attention was not gunfire but a constant, annoying lineup of cars on the streets outside Muhammad’s home, where he would repair them. Residents described the neighborhood, home to white and Latino families who settled there during a suburban explosion that attended the opening of the mall about 15 years ago, as closely knit and friendly. Many of the homes are bedecked with U.S. flags, and nearly all sport stickers proclaiming theirs to be a “Drugs/Crime Safe Street Neighborhood!”
But while Muhammad was a quiet man, he was not a quiet presence on Ainsworth Avenue. At times, a half-dozen or more cars would be left in front of his home and in a small street beside it, awaiting his repairs. Neighbors complained to police on occasion and said the parade of cars would temporarily slow, only to resume.
“They were all over the alley, and he always had his head in the hood,” said King, who said police cited one of the vehicles for an expired tag.
Neighbors said that at first, they approached Muhammad and asked if they could hire him to work on their cars. But he always refused, usually saying he did not have his boss’s permission. They said he neither identified the company he worked for nor explained why he needed permission to lend a hand on his time off.
In a response last year to a court filing in which his second wife, Mildred Denice Muhammad, sought a restraining order, Muhammad listed himself as owner and operator of “Express Car/Truck Mechanic Inc.”
Records on file with the Washington secretary of state’s office, however, do not appear to support Muhammad’s claim. The company was actually registered in Mildred Muhammad’s name, and its registration expired in March 1998, more than three years earlier.