A Muslim woman was injured in the US Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, after as many as 18 bullets were fired into her fence and home by American gunmen, media report said.
“We don’t know if it was a random shooting” or the family was targeted because of their faith, the homeowner said outside his house in the 7800 block of Shiny Meadow Lane, The Charlotte Observer reported.
Police won’t know if a hate crime was involved until they arrest someone in the case, Charlotte-Mecklenburg police Capt. Chuck Henson said.
Shots struck the family’s rear security fence and back of the home about 1 a.m., police said.
One bullet went through a second-floor window, striking the woman in the thigh as she slept, the homeowner told news reporters and photographers.
The homeowner asked that he be identified only by his first name, Abdul. He said his wife was moved to intensive care and will need surgery.
“Why our house in particular?” Abdul earlier told WBTV, the Observer’s news partner. “Why aren’t the other houses shot at? Looks like we were targeted for one purpose or another, and it doesn’t sound like a random shooting.
“We are traumatized, all of us, and we are thinking who can be shooting at us? Is it for motive? We have no idea,” Abdul said.
Last month, three Muslim students – 23-year-old Deah Shaddy Barakat, his 21-year-old wife Yusor Mohammad Abu-Salha and her 19-year-old sister Razan – were murdered by their white neighbor Craig Stephen Hicks.
The killing happened in the North Carolina university town of Chapel Hill.
Hicks, 46, has been charged with three counts of murder, and is thought to be a fierce opponent of religion: on his Facebook page, he published anti-religious posts, including against Islam, Christianity and Mormons.
17 March 2015 - 09:44
News ID: 677351
A Muslim woman was injured in the US Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, after as many as 18 bullets were fired into her fence and home by American gunmen, media report said.
