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Seattle man on ‘jihad’ pleads guilty to murder in New Jersey, admits to 3 other homicides in King County

2018-03-26

From early this month, but now we can close the books on a story we’ve been following since 2014. [SeattleTimes] In a courtroom nearly 3,000 miles from Seattle, Ali Muhammad Brown pleaded guilty on Tuesday to killing a college student in New Jersey and admitted he fatally shot three men in the Seattle area in spring 2014 as part of an overarching plan to retaliate against the U.S. for military actions in the Middle East. His admission of guilt in connection with the deaths of Leroy Henderson in Skyway and Dwone Anderson-Young and Ahmed Said in Seattle’s Leschi neighborhood won’t impact the three aggravated first-degree murder charges filed against him in King County Superior Court, said Mark Larson, the county’s chief criminal deputy prosecutor. Brown, who pleaded guilty to multiple charges, including murder, robbery and terrorism in New Jersey’s Essex County, is currently serving a 35-year sentence for a New Jersey armed robbery committed before Brown killed 19-year-old Brandon Tevlin outside Newark.

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Seattle man charged with murder, terrorism in New Jersey

2015-07-03

[KomoNews] NEWARK, N.J. (AP) - A Seattle man was indicted on murder and terrorism charges Thursday for allegedly shooting a New Jersey college student last year in a fit of rage over the U.S. government's role in the Middle East, which authorities said is the first time a terror charge has been brought in the state in connection with a murder case. Ali Muhammad Brown, 30, fatally shot Brendan Tevlin while the 19-year-old was stopped at a traffic light in northern New Jersey, authorities said. Brown also faces three aggravated murder charges in Seattle, where authorities said last year the killings were part of a crusade to punish the U.S. government for its foreign policies. Authorities said in court documents filed in Seattle last year that Brown described himself to detectives after his New Jersey arrest as a strict Muslim who was angry with the U.S. government's role in Iraq, Iran and Afghanistan because of the death of innocent civilians and children. "The defendant was on a bloody crusade, executing four innocent men ... with the same murder weapon, over the course of approximately two months, and all under the common and single scheme of exacting 'vengeance' against the United States government for its foreign policies," prosecutors said.

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Act of Jihad in America? Radio Host Says Teen's Murder Was 'Domestic Terrorism'

2014-09-13

[FOXNEWSINSIDER] There's growing outrage that a possible act of jihad in the United States is being ignored. 19-year-old Brendan Tevlin was shot to death in New Jersey in late June. Authorities later charged Ali Muhammad Brown with murder. After his arrest, Brown said his motive was Dire Revenge™ for U.S. actions in the Middle East. This led to New York-area radio host Todd Pettengill sounding off on what he sees as an act of domestic terrorism. "If there was ever a reason to riot in the streets in the name of humanity, it would be for this case. But has that happened? No, and I'm not suggesting that it should. ...This should be talked about and written about and the American people should know. Why's Eric Inaction Jackson Holder ... aka Mister Fast and Furious... not visiting the Tevlin family? Why is the president not going to mention Brendan Tevlin tonight?" Pettengill said Wednesday on WPLJ's "The Todd Show." Martha MacCallum, who has highlighted the Tevlin case on America's Newsroom, spoke to Pettengill about what he thinks should happen as a result of Tevlin's death. Pettengill said he may not have heard about this story if his daughter hadn't been friends with the Tevlin family. "Where is the outrage for a young man, 19 years old, who was killed because he was an American? That's it. There's no two sides to this story," he lamented. MacCallum said initially, people wrongly assumed that Tevlin was killed buying drugs, but it turned out there was no drug-related element to the crime. "Now we know that he was targeted because he was a white man alone in his car," she noted. MacCallum pointed out that Brown is the suspect in three other assassinations. She noted that it looks like a case of "serial terrorism." Pettengill said he reached out to the family to make sure they were OK that he speak on his show about his outrage over the killing. "This kid was murdered because he was an American and that's where the story should begin. That's where the discussion should take place. Because domestic terrorism is here. It happened in New Jersey," said Pettengill. Pettengill asked people to call attention to the murder on social media using #BrendanTevlin and visit the Facebook page dedicated to Tevlin's memory. So where has the national media been on this story? "Outnumbered" took on that question this afternoon.

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Michelle Malkin: The Jihadi serial killer no one is talking about.

2014-08-31

For two bloody months, an armed jihadist serial killer ran loose across the country. At least four innocent men died this spring and summer as acts of "vengeance" on behalf of aggrieved Muslims, the self-confessed murderer has now proclaimed. Have you heard about this horror? Probably not. The usual suspects who decry hate crimes and gun violence haven't uttered a peep. Why? Like O.J.'s glove: If the narrative don't fit, you must acquit. The admitted killer will be cast as just another "lone wolf" whose familiar grievances and bloodthirsty Islamic invocations mean nothing. I say: Enough with the whitewashing. Meet Ali Muhammad Brown. His homicidal Islamic terror spree took him from coast to coast. The 29-year-old career thug admitted to killing Leroy Henderson in Seattle in April; Ahmed Said and Dwone Anderson-Young in Seattle on June 1; and college student Brendan Tevlin, 19, in Essex County, New Jersey, on June 25. Tevlin was gunned down in his family Jeep on his way home from a friend's house. Ballistics and other evidence linked all the victims to Muhammad Brown. Police apprehended him last month hiding in an encampment near the Watchung Mountains of West Orange, New Jersey. While he was on the run, he disguised himself in a Muslim keffiyeh. He carried a notebook with jihadist scribblings and advice on evading detection. I obtained the latest charging documents filed in Washington state, which detail the defiant domestic terrorist's motives. Mr. Brown "just doing his small part for jihad."

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A Little American Jihad: Suspect In Seattle Double Murder Linked To Fourth Homicide

2014-08-21

[NBC-K5] The man suspected of killing two people in Seattle's Central District and a young woman in New Jersey is now the prime suspect in a fourth homicide. Ali Muhammad Brown is currently in jail on $5 million bail for the alleged murder of a college student in late June. Brown has already been charged with gunning down two men at 29th and King Street in Seattle's Leschi neighborhood on June 1. Sources say King County prosecutors are about to charge him with another homicide, the drive-by shooting of Leroy Henderson, who was killed walking in Seattle's Skyway neighborhood on April 27. Brown was incarcerated You have the right to remain silent... July 18 at a homeless camp in New Jersey. Multiple sources with knowledge of the investigation say Brown told police he carried out the murders because he was on a jihad to kill Americans. Multiple sources with knowledge of the investigation say Brown told police he carried out the murders because he was on a jihad to kill Americans. Henderson's father, also named Leroy, said his son had moved to Seattle from Gary, Indiana six months before his murder. He also indicated the King County Prosecutor's Office called him earlier Tuesday and said charges were planned for the following day. At the scene of Henderson's murder, family members gathered to pay respects. Henderson's mother was also a murder victim thirty years before his death, and her killer was not found for two decades. "We waited twenty years to find our mother's killer," said Henderson's sister Toninette Anderson, who lives in Skyway. "I kept on telling God, I don't want to wait another 20 years. "I don't want to wait until I'm 57 to find out who killed my brother." After the Leschi area murders in June, police launched an extensive search for Brown, a transient and Level One sex offender known to frequent south King County.

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14 arrested over terror in US

2004-11-19

US anti-terrorism agents have arrested 14 mostly-Muslim suspects for offences ranging from alleged immigration fraud to illegal gun possession, court documents showed. Five residents of the northwestern city of Seattle were arrested for allegedly plotting to help Gambians illegally seek asylum in the United States by claiming they were refugees from strife-torn Sierra Leone. Seattle again, huh? Seems to be a real hot bed of islamic types. A further four were arrested and charged with an elaborate bank fraud scheme, while five men were arrested for illegally possessing guns, including an AK-47 assault rifle, documents showed. While the cases are not directly linked, a joint Federal Bureau of Investigation and police anti-terrorism task force discovered the alleged offences after launching a single investigation that later multiplied. "The cases themselves are not related, but one investigation led to another until there were three," said Emily Langlie, spokeswoman for the US Attorney's office in Seattle. Five people were charged with conspiring to "assist immigrants, primarily from The Gambia, in fraudulently obtaining asylum in the United States." The five - Souleymane Camara, Muhamed Njolo Tunkara, Bubacarr Tunkara, Muhammad Fofana and Mohamed Jawara - are accused of supplying fraudulent documents to Gambian immigrants who used them to apply for asylum, the indictment states. The documents, including Sierra Leone passports, birth certificates and identity cards, were chosen because the suspects believed it would be easier to obtain asylum for immigrants if they were thought to hail from the war-torn West African nation. Five men - Jacob Santos Martinez, aka "Yagoub," Ahmad Amdul Salaam As-Sadiq, Zaid Mumin, Samuel Olvira Morales and David Joseph McRae aka "Daoud" - were arrested for a range of weapons possessions charges. Four people - Karim Abdulla Asalaam, Attawwaab Muhammad Fard, Ali Muhammad Brown and Herber Chandler Sandford - were charged with a scheme under which they deposited more than 10,000 dollars of bad or fraudulent cheques over several years. The arrests by the joint-terrorism task force came after officers executed around 12 search warrants in the Seattle area early yesterday. The warrants obtained by KOMO television indicated that agents were looking for training manuals instructing people how to shoot, assault or kill and were also seeking any information about training children for urban warfare. The Seattle area has been the site of a number of terrorism-related arrests by US authorities in the past three years since the September 11, 2001 attacks on New York and Washington.

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