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Murder suspect in Alabama recruitment center shooting may have considered other targets
[SIZE=-1]06:38 AM CDT on Thursday, June 4, 2009
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[SIZE=-1]Associated Press[/SIZE]
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – A Muslim convert accused of killing a soldier outside a recruiting center may have been considering other targets including Jewish and Christian sites – and had the firepower to carry out more attacks, according to law enforcement officials.
Abdulhakim Muhammad was charged with capital murder in state court Tuesday in Little Rock.
An FBI-Homeland Security intelligence assessment obtained by The Associated Press said officers found maps to Jewish organizations, a child care center, a Baptist church, a post office and military recruiting centers in the Southeastern U.S., New York and Philadelphia.
"Out of an abundance of caution and in light of newly discovered information, the FBI cannot rule out additional subjects, targets or the potential for inspired copycats who might act out in support of the original act," the assessment said.
Abdulhakim Muhammad, 23, of Little Rock had targeted soldiers "because of what they had done to Muslims in the past," authorities said, saying he had said he wanted to "kill as many people in the Army as he could."
Muhammad was charged with capital murder in state court Tuesday. He pleaded not guilty to the shooting in a suburban shopping center.
Pvt. William Long, 23, was killed and Pvt. Quinton Ezeagwula, 18, was wounded. Both completed basic training recently and had never seen combat. They volunteered to help attract others into military service and were shot as they smoked cigarettes outside the recruiting center.
Long's father said he had moved to rural Arkansas to seek a quiet life for his family after years of military service. Daris Long had served in the Marine Corps, and his wife, Janet, was in the Navy.
The family lived just outside Conway, 30 miles north of Little Rock.
Daris Long said his son joined the Army on his own accord, rather than obediently following a family tradition of military service.
"He was a hero. The other young lad that's in the hospital, he's a hero," Long told Little Rock television station KATV. "They weren't on the battlefield, but apparently, the battlefield's here."
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