Gunman kills whites he selected at random
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THREE men in Fresno, California, were singled out at random and killed by a black gunman targeting white victims, police said.
The men happened to be on the same block, but had no known connection to each other or to the killer, Kori Ali Muhammad, who told police he wanted to kill as many white people as he could before he was captured.
One victim, a 34-year-old father of two, was on a job when he was shot on Tuesday in the passenger seat of a utility truck. The driver wasn’t hit, but his partner couldn’t be saved.
Another victim, a 37-year-old man, had just picked up a bag of groceries at a Catholic Charities building when he was gunned down. Stephen Hughes, 66, said he and his wife rushed home on Tuesday after receiving a frantic call from a neighbor to find a body draped in a blanket on the sidewalk leading to his front door.
“It looks like a guy carrying his groceries home from the store,” Hughes said.
The third victim, a 59-year-old man, was gunned down in the parking of the Catholic Charities building.
“These were unprovoked attacks,” Fresno police Chief Jerry Dyer said.
Two Latina women and a child crossed paths with Muhammad but were luckier. Muhammad pointed the gun at them as they sat in their car trying to flee, but didn’t shoot.
Muhammad, 39, is in custody and is expected to be charged with four counts of murder — for Tuesday’s three victims and 25-year-old Motel 6 security guard, Carl Williams, another white man who Muhammad shot last week.
Police had been looking for Muhammad in the Williams killing, and Muhammad said seeing his own name and picture in a press release on Tuesday morning had helped to spur the rampage.
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