Federal prosecutors in New Mexico are now alleging that the son of the male arrested in connection to the killings of 4 Muslim adult men about Albuquerque may well have aided his father with the murders.   

The FBI and the Albuquerque Police Division on Aug. 9 arrested 51-12 months-aged Muhammad Syed. So much, he is charged with the murders of two Muslim males from Pakistan – the July 26 capturing of 41-year-outdated Aftab Hussein, as nicely as the Aug. 1 taking pictures of 27-yr-aged Muhammad Afzaal Hussain. 

Court documents allege Syed committed common acts of violence in the 6 decades since he fled the war in Afghanistan and resettled in the U.S. 

Authorities explained he also is regarded the key suspect in the capturing demise of 25-calendar year-outdated Naeem Hussain gunned down exterior a refugee solutions heart in Albuquerque on Aug. 5, as well as the Nov. 7, 2021, slaying of 62-12 months-previous Mohammad Zahir Ahmadi outside his family’s halal shop.  

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Shaheen Syed, 21, pictured in a 2021 Florida driver’s license image included in courtroom files.  (U.S. District Court )

In the days given that his father’s arrest, Syed’s son, 21-yr-outdated Shaheen Syed – beforehand recognized as Maiwand Syed, has been taken into federal custody and charged with giving a fake address when he bought a gun in June 2021, The Albuquerque Journal described. 

The younger Syed is accused of falsely claiming he was a Florida resident although making the acquire at an Albuquerque gun retail store. 

In a motion to detain the young Syed submitted in U.S. District Courtroom in New Mexico, prosecutors explained him as a "serial liar" and a flight hazard, citing mobile cell phone records suggesting the 21-calendar year-outdated assisted his father in surveilling Naeem Hussain, who was at some point shot to demise while sitting in his SUV outside the house of Lutheran Relatives Services. 

This photo launched Tuesday, Aug. 9, 2022, by the Albuquerque Police Division demonstrates Muhammad Syed, 51, who was taken into custody Monday, Aug. 8, 2022, in connection with the killings of four Muslim guys in Albuquerque.  (Albuquerque Police Division by way of WHD, File)

Authorities believed the elder Syed adopted Naeem Hussain from the Islamic Center of New Mexico subsequent funeral providers for Aftab Hussein and Muhammad Afzaal Hussain. The father and son allegedly spoke on the mobile phone equally in advance of and soon after the shooting, with their cells pinging in the "common spot of the murder," in accordance to the motion. 

The movement also involves prior law enforcement studies about the youthful Syed allegedly beating his father and 16-yr-aged sister. 

This Aug. 9, 2020, continue to graphic taken from officer video supplied by the Albuquerque Law enforcement Section demonstrates the arrest of Muhammad Syed.  (Albuquerque Police Department by way of WHD, File)

The youthful Syed seemingly had an exceptional warrant for that domestic violence-associated incident. The motion also cited law enforcement experiences suggesting the younger Syed and his brother, Adil, were being allegedly included in an additional shooting exterior a Walmart.  

Shaheen Syed’s attorney, John Anderson, submitted a reaction to the movement on Saturday, countering that the so-named evidence cited by prosecutors allegedly tying his client to the death of Naeem Hussain is "exceedingly skinny and speculative," according to the Journal. 

This undated photograph unveiled by the Metropolis of Española demonstrates Muhammad Afzaal Hussain, 27, a setting up and land use director who was killed in Albuquerque, N.M., on Aug. 1, 2022. Hussain is one of 4 victims in a sequence of killings of Muslim adult men in New Mexico's most significant metropolis as the fatalities despatched ripples of panic as a result of the spiritual local community nationwide.  (Town of Española by using WHD, File)

Anderson’s movement also promises that the younger Syed never ever been given a summons for the domestic violence incident and incorporates a photograph of a Florida driver’s license issued to Shaheen Syed in 2021. 

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"If either the United States or the State of New Mexico has ample proof to demand [Shaheen Syed] with a extra really serious crime, it is surely at liberty to do so," Anderson wrote. "But in the absence of evidence ample even to charge [Shaheen Syed] with involvement in all those murders, he can not be detained on that basis."