 [YOURCENTRALVALLEY] Three people are dead
| ...all of them white men... |
in a shooting spree in downtown Fresno on Tuesday, and the suspect was wanted in connection to the Motel 6 killing last week,
| ...that victim was a white man, too, not at all coincidentally... |
the Fresno Police Department said.
Kori Ali Muhammad, 39, shouted "Allahu Akbar" as police tackled him to the ground after the shootings which were spread over four locations, Police Chief Jerry Dyer said.
The victims appeared to be random, Dyer said.
Shot Spotter detected the first gunshots around 10:45 a.m. Muhammad shot into a PG&E vehicle killing the passenger. The driver sped away and drove to Fresno Police headquarters.
Muhammad continued walking and shot up a local resident but missed. Shortly after, he encountered another resident and shot and killed that person.
He then continued to the area of Catholic Charities where he shot and killed a person in the parking lot. Shortly after, he was apprehended without police firing a shot.
"All sixteen of these rounds were fired in less than a minute within four different locations," Dyer said.
Officers responded within one minute of the first shots.
Muhammad used a social media account -- in part -- to perpetuate an anti-white agenda.
Dyer said the men who were killed are believed to have had no connection to Muhammad. Dyer also said it was too early to tell whether terrorism was a factor.
| Sudden Jihad Syndrome makes it terrorism, Chief Dyer. The question is whether our miscreant is formally a member of a jihadi organization such as ISIS or a Muslim supremacist organization such as the Muslim Brotherhood or Nation of Islam, or if perhaps he was radicalized by what he saw on the internet. |
The Islamic Cultural Center in Fresno released a statement condemning the shootings.
Muhammad,who was born Cory Taylor, is a self-proclaimed rapper who goes by the nickname of 'Black Jesus'. He also goes by the name of B-God Mac Sun, and sells his 12-track album 'True Story Kori' on Amazon.
Muhammad is active on Facebook and Twitter and previously expressed his dislike of white people and anti-government sentiments in social media posts.
His father, Vincent Taylor, told the LA Times on Tuesday that his son believed there was a race was
| I think that was supposed to be race war... |
going on in America that he was in the midst of, and 'a battle was about to take place'.
'I'm happy he was tossed in the clink
You have the right to remain silent...
,' Taylor said. 'I would hope that whatever Kori tells [police,] they take him seriously and they start following up.'
| When good people have bad children. That poor man. |
Muhammad's grandmother, Glenestene Taylor, said that he'd been acting strangely when he visited her on Sunday, and that he was crying. However,
a poor excuse is better than no excuse at all...
she said she didn't get the impression that her grandson held hatred towards any race.
'He would say something derogatory about anybody, didn't matter about the color,' she said. 'If he didn't like what they did, he didn't like what they did no matter the color.'
The spree shooter has a length criminal record, including a dismissed felony charge of unlawful firearm possession in 2004.
He was deemed mentally unfit to stand trial in 2005 after a grand jury indicted him on cocaine and firearm possession. A federal judge later declared him mentally fit in 2006 and he subsequently served 92 months in prison.
| Mentally unbalanced known wolf -- he was ripe for the harvest. |
Officers on the scene found rounds of 357 caliber bullets, and a speed loader for a revolver, but did not recover a murder weapon when they apprehended Muhammad.
Brian Levin, director of Cal State San Bernardino's Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism, referred to Muhammad as a 'violent black supremacist'.
Sayed Ali Ghazvini, imam of the Islamic Cultural Center of Fresno, said Muhammad was not a member of his congregation and he did not recognize him.
| Possibly this is true. Did anyone check with the Nation of Islam people? |
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[ABCNEWS.GO] The suspect in this week's racially motivated shooting rampage in Fresno entered a courtroom early Friday shouting that natural disasters striking America will increase.