Mar 02, 2017 · A
Muslim activist group has called for an FBI investigation of a
Seattle-area
Muslim teen’s death by hanging after the medical examiner changed the cause ...
Seattle Muslim Teen Found Dead, Hanging From a Tree
A Seattle Muslim teen was found dead hanging from tree and his
family is asking for help from anyone who may know what happened.
The family of an 18-year-old African American Muslim is
pleading
to the public to come forward if they have any information about the
death of their son who died under very mysterious circumstances.
The incident, which the medical examiner initially ruled a suicide,
involves 18-year-old Ben Keita, whose body was discovered in a wooded
area of Lake Stevens in January. He’d vanished in November. More than a
month after his disappearance, Ben Keita’s body was found in the woods
near the neighborhood.
“Ben was a happy young man,” father Ibrahima Keita
told Q13 Fox. He said his son had no history of depression or anxiety.
Keita’s family were concerned that four of the young man’s co-workers
were not interviewed before Lake Stevens police closed their
investigation last week, but they did not say why those acquaintances
should be questioned.
Arsalan Bukhari, executive director of Washington CAIR, a
organization defending Muslims’ rights around the country, said that he
has asked the FBI to step in and thoroughly investigate the case. “We
just want to make sure that the expertise, the experience and the human
resources of the FBI are brought to make sure everything is
comprehensively investigated, no stone is left unturned,” he said.
The FBI said it would review the case to decide whether to open an
investigation. The Seattle office of the FBI said in a statement it “is
communicating with our police partners,” KIRO reported. “We are aware of
the circumstances of the individual’s death and will review them with
consideration of federal law.”
“We just want to make sure that the expertise, the experience and the
human resources of the FBI are brought to make sure everything is
comprehensively investigated, no stone is left unturned,” Arsalan
Bukhari told reporters.
Since the election of Donald Trump attacks on immigrants, Muslims and
Jews have multiplied across the country. This week a 35-year-old man
was arrested for an ‘anti-Muslim’ attack in which he allegedly bit the
victim’s face and hurled racial slurs. The man, Robin McGreer,
approached a 31-year-old man at a shopping mall parking lot in McLean,
Virginia, and started a conversation following which he threatened the
man using anti-Muslim slurs, police said.
Also this week, A 32-year-old Indian engineer was killed and another
Indian man and an American were injured in the apparent racially
motivated hate crime. Srinivas Kuchibhotla, working at GPS-maker Garmin
headquarters in Olathe, died of bullet injuries in a hospital. His
Indian colleague Alok Madasani was critically injured. Witnesses of the
shooting state that prior to opening fire, the attacker uttered racial
slurs and yelled “get out of my country” at the two Indian victims,
thinking that they were of Middle Eastern background.
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