Muslim teen found dead in Virginia
Monday, June 19th, 2017 1:29:14 by fatimaarshad
A 17-year-old American-Muslim teen girl was assaulted by a white male outside a mosque in Virginia on Sunday and later, she was found dead in a pond.
The incident has sparked fear among Muslims living in the US as hate crimes are at an all-time high. Muslims coming to pray at the All Dulles Area Muslim Society mosque were shocked to find that the young girl who used to come to pray there was killed in an apparent hate-crime incident.
According to the details of the incident provided, the attack took place early on Sunday after the victim and her friends, walking outside the mosque, got into an argument with a motorist. At one point, the motorist got of his car and assaulted the girls with a hockey stick.
All the girls scattered during the assault and later could not find one of their friends. This prompted an hours-long search by authorities in Fairfax and Loudoun counties. At around 3 pm, the remains of a female, believed to be the teen victim, were found in a pond in Sterling.
During the search for the missing teen, authorities stopped a motorist “driving suspiciously in the area” and arrested the driver, later identified as identified as Darwin Martinez Torres, 22.
Police obtained a murder warrant that charges Torres for her death, the Fairfax County Police Department said.
Support has been pouring in for the victim’s family and an online fundraiser for the girl’s family had raised $61,606 by Sunday evening.
The police had said that an autopsy will be conducted to ascertain the victim’s identity and discover a cause of death.
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on Jun 19 2017. Filed under Latest News, World.
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