December 4, 2014 Ahmed Aden Charged Murder Vehicle Attack Kills Teen Outside Kansas City Mosque 1 killed suspect charged with murder. Ahmed H. Aden admits he drove his Chevy Blazer into Staley High School teen Abdisamad Sheikh-Hussein near a downtown Kansas City mosque, but he thought he hit one of the men who had threatened him nine days earlier. One suspected motive is anti-Muslim hatred as the Somali-Christian had messages on his vehicle including “Quran is a virus disease woreste [sic] than Ebola.” and had reported to authorities as terrorizing the community for months, having verbally threatened members of the mosque on multiple occasions, and once declared that he “intended to kill several people.” Aden's family described him as a schizophrenic, and he was committed to a mental institution for two years after threatening to burn down a social security office in Minneapolis. He had described himself as a prophet, and made rants against Islam and threats against Muslim worshippers.
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Killing of Abdisamad Sheikh-Hussein
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Kansas City
Kansas City (Missouri)
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| Location | Kansas City, Missouri, United States |
| Coordinates | 39°05′59″N 94°34′42″W |
| Date | December 4, 2014 |
Attack type
| Vehicle-ramming attack |
| Deaths | 1 |
| Victim | Abdisamad Sheikh-Hussein |
Abdisamad "Adam" Sheikh-Hussein was a 15-year-old boy who was killed on December 4, 2014 in Kansas City, Missouri. He was a student at Staley High School. He was a Muslim and had immigrated to the United States from Somalia with his family. As he walked near the Kansas City Somali Center, a man intentionally rammed his car into him, knocking him into the air, and then ran over him, nearly severing his legs.[1] He died in the hospital. The FBIinvestigated the incident as an anti-Muslim hate crime.
Ahmed H. Aden, a 34-year-old Somali Christian truck driver told police he ran over the boy.[2][3] Aden's family described him as a schizophrenic, and he was committed to a mental institution for two years after threatening to burn down a social security office in Minneapolis. He had described himself as a prophet, and made rants against Islam and threats against Muslim worshippers outside a mosque. The SUV used in the attack had an anti-Muslim bumper sticker which compared the Quran with the Ebola virus, while another stated that "Islam is worse than Ebola".[4][5] Charges of "first-degree murder, armed criminal action, leaving the scene of an accident and unlawful use of a weapon" have been filed by the Jackson County prosecutor, and a grand jury is hearing evidence to decide if he should go to trial.[6]
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- ^ "Interfaith vigil held for slain teen Abdisamad Sheikh-Hussein". 41 Action News. December 7, 2014. Retrieved 10 December 2014.
- ^ "Man charged with murder for allegedly charging teen with SUV outside Kansas City mosque". kansascity.
- ^ "A closer look at the young lives lost". kansascity.
- ^ "FBI investigating the death of somali american teen as a possible hate crime". i24news.tv. Retrieved December 28, 2014.
- ^ "Community mourns somali muslim death in Kansas city". The Guardian. Retrieved December 28, 2014.
- ^ "Grand jury to decide if man purposely ran down teen". WSMV-TV. December 22, 2014. Retrieved 28 December 2014.
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Man charged with murder for allegedly charging teen with SUV outside Kansas City mosque Ahmed Aden has been charged with murder in the death of a 15-year-old outside a Kansas City mosque Thursday night. BY MARK MORRIS, ERIC ADLER AND TONY RIZZO DECEMBER 05, 2014 4:21 PM Thursday, Abdisamad Sheikh-Hussein helped lead the evening Muslim prayers at his mosque near downtown... Abdisamad, 15, he stepped off the curb killed outside a Somali community center Chevrolet Blazer speeding eastbound sideswiped the car and struck Abdisamad, nearly severing his legs. The Somali Muslim community mourned after the Staley High School sophomore died later at a hospital. The driver of the SUV, Ahmed H. Aden, a 34-year-old Kansas City truck driver, told police after his arrest that he had been searching for men who’d threatened him nine days earlier.... intentionally struck Abdisamad, but he had mistaken the teen for one of the men who had threatened him.
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Dec 6, 2014 - Devastated family, friends and schoolmates of a 15-year-old boy killed in a horrific hit-and-run car crash that is being investigated as a hate crime gathered for his funeral on Saturday. A large community of Somali Muslims in Kansas City, Missouri, is still in shock after the boy ...
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Abdisamad "Adam" Sheikh-Hussein was a 15-year-old boy who was killed on December 4, 2014 in Kansas City, Missouri. He was a student at Staley High ...
Man charged with murder for allegedly charging teen with SUV ...
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Dec 5, 2014 - Before suffering gruesome and fatal injuries Thursday, Abdisamad Sheikh-Hussein helped lead the evening Muslim prayers at his mosque ...
Hundreds gather in Kansas City to mourn slain Somali teen | The ...
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Dec 6, 2014 - ... to pray for the soul of 15-year-old body of Abdisamad Sheikh-Hussein, ... Mustafa Hussein, the service manager for the center, said funeral ...
Murder Charge After Driver Kills a Muslim Teenager - The New York ...
https://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/.../driver-is-charged-after-killing-muslim-teenager.ht...Dec 6, 2014 - The victim, Abdisamad Sheikh-Hussein, 15, was killed outside a Somali community center here. According to a probable-cause statement, the ...
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Dec 8, 2014 - Fifteen-year-old Abdisamad “Adam” Sheikh-Hussein, a Muslim, was on his way to play basketball with friends last Thursday evening when he ...Sheikh-Hussein’s death is tragic, but local Muslims say the incident is made all the more painful by his killer’s suspected motive: anti-Muslim hatred. Aden’s vehicle was reportedly covered with a number of hateful messages, including one that read “Quran is a virus disease woreste [sic] than Ebola.” Aden, a truck driver who is described as a Somali-Christian, had reportedly been terrorizing the community for months, with members of the Mosque repeatedly alerting authorities to his frightening behavior. Moussa Elbayoumy, chairman of the Kansas chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, told the Kansas City Star that Aden had verbally threatened members of the mosque on multiple occasions, and once declared that he “intended to kill several people.”
Police are currently investigating the Kansas City death as a possible hate crime
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