イスラム指導者射殺関与か　ＮＹで中南米系の男逮捕

米ニューヨーク・クイーンズで１３日、イマーム（イスラム教指導者）ら男性２人が射殺された事件で、地元警察は１５日、事件直後に現場近くで車の当て逃げ事件を起こしたとして中南米系の男（３６）を逮捕したと発表した。
射殺事件に関与したとみて調べている。

警察は男の名や取り調べ内容を明かしていない。
現場近くのモスク（イスラム教礼拝所）に通うイスラム教徒らは、憎悪犯罪（ヘイトクライム）の可能性が高いと指摘している。

撃たれたのは指導者のマウラマ・アコンジさん（５５）と補佐役の男性（６４）。
共に伝統的なイスラム教徒の服装で、モスクから出た際に背後から撃たれた。（共同）

▽引用元：産経ニュース　2016.8.16 11:51更新
http://www.sankei.com/world/news/160816/wor1608160019-n1.html

Alvin Morel, Oscar’s brother, insisted to The Post that the killings were not a hate crime. He said that his brother felt hatred toward Muslims on 9/11, but it was “only temporary” and that he “now has no hate for the Muslims.”

“We’re Catholic-school kids — we don’t do this,” Alvin added. “He’s a good guy.”

Some in the largely Bangladeshi Muslim community in Queens and Brooklyn have described harassment in recent months by people who shouted anti-Muslim epithets.

Boyce said Morel may have worked in a warehouse in the East New York neighborhood of Brooklyn, but he wouldn't comment any further on his background or mental state.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2016/08/16/new-york-imam-shooting-suspect-arrested-on-murder-charges.html

Morel (surname)

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Morel is a French surname. Notable people with that surname include:

Alfred Morel-Fatio (1850–1924), French hispanist
Antoine Léon Morel-Fatio (1810–1871), French painter
Bénédict Morel (1809–1873), Austrian-French psychiatrist
Brent Morel (baseball) (born 1987), American major league baseball player
Cecilia Morel (born 1954), Chilean First Lady, wife of President Sebastián Piñera Echenique
Charlotte Morel (born 1972), professional French triathlete
Claudio Marcelo Morel Rodríguez, Paraguayan footballer
Edmund Dene Morel (1873–1924), Franco-British journalist and politician
François Morel (born 1926), Canadian composer, pianist, conductor, and music educator
François Morel (actor) (born 1959), French actor and filmmaker
Gaël Morel (born 1972), French film director
Guillaume Morel (1505–1564), French classical scholar
Guy Morel (1933–2006), Seychellois businessman
Jean Baptiste Morel (1662–1732), a Flemish painter
Jean-Baptiste Morel (1854–1927), French politician
Jérémy Morel (born 1984), French footballer
Jorge Morel (born 1931), Argentine classical guitarist and composer
Juan Morel Campos (1857–1896), Puerto Rican composer
Léonard Morel-Ladeuil (1820–1888), French goldsmith and sculptor
Marie-Rose Morel (born 1972), Belgian politician
Olivier Morel de La Durantaye (1640–1716), colonial officer in New France
Pierre Morel (born 1964), French cinematographer and film director
Richard Morel, American singer, songwriter, remixer and record producer;
Salomon Morel (1919–2007), a Polish-Jewish commander of the Zgoda concentration camp in Świętochłowice.
Yoryi Morel (1906–1979), a painter from the Dominican Republic