Salt Lake City Killer Update
Charles Johnson
Fri Feb 16, 2007 at 1:43 pm PST • Views: 458
The latest news in the case of Sulejman Talovic, who killed five people and terrorized a Salt Lake City shopping mall: Terrorism not ruled out in Salt Lake case. (Hat tip: LGF readers.)
While the FBI stated it has found no evidence Islamic terrorism was a motive in the Salt Lake City mall shooting, investigators have not ruled it out, a police spokeswoman told WND.
FBI agent Patrick Kiernan declared to reporters Wednesday he had no reason to believe the random, dispassionately executed murder of five people by 18-year-old Bosnian Muslim immigrant Sulejman Talovic Monday night had anything to do with Islamic terrorism, calling it “just unexplainable.”
But Salt Lake Police spokeswoman Robin Snyder told WND the FBI is still working with her department on the case, and investigators continue to explore the terrorism angle. “We will pursue every single lead,” she said. “There is not one lead we are not willing to pursue. At this point, we don’t have any idea of any motive. Nothing is ruled out.”
Snyder told WND, however, she was not aware family members say Talovic often attended Friday prayers at the Al-Noor mosque, about a block from the site of the shooting, according to the Salt Lake Tribune. Talovic stopped coming to the meetings in December, the paper said yesterday, when, under pressure from his father, he got a full-time job to help support the family.
UPDATE at 2/16/07 2:23:57 pm:
Another well-known alumnus of the Al-Noor Mosque: Cpl. Wassef Ali Hassoun, the Marine deserter who claimed he had been kidnapped, then fled to Lebanon. (Hat tip: Doss.)
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