Around Us: Islamic Community Offers $10K Reward In Triple Homicide
FORT WAYNE — The Islamic Community of Greater Fort Wayne is offering a $10,000 reward for information that leads to the arrest of those behind the deaths of two men and a teenager.
At a news conference Friday, March 4, members of the organization revealed the amount of the reward and pleaded with city officials to not let the investigation become a cold case.
“Islamic Community of Greater Fort Wayne wants to have the city safe from terror for every human being,” the organization said in a statement Thursday, March 3.
“According to Islamic teachings life is sacred. If you take the life of one innocent person it is as though you have taken the life of all mankind. And if you save the life of one innocent person it is as though you have saved the life of the all humanity.”
More than a week after officers found Mohamedtaha Omar, 23, Adam K. Mekki, 20, and Muhannad A. Tairab, 17, dead inside a home at 808 E. Lewis St., Fort Wayne police have made no arrests and have no leads in the case. Police also have no motive, although they have said the shootings were not a ‘hate crime.’
Police Chief Garry Hamilton has said the white, two-story house the two men and teenager were found dead in was a “party house.” The three did not live at the home.
Source: WANE