Bangladeshi Muslims in Queens said on Sunday that the killing a day earlier of an imam and his close friend was an anti-Muslim hate crime, but local police said there is no evidence so far to support that, The Associated Press reports.
Police hunted for the gunman who killed Imam Maulama Akonjee, 55, and Thara Uddin, 64, near the Al-Furqan Jame Masjid mosque in Queens as they left afternoon prayers Saturday in their traditional religious attire.
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