by Ann E. Marimow and Justin Jouvenal

June 20, 2017

 

The horrific weekend slaying of Virginia high school student Nabra Hassanen has prompted calls from civil liberties advocates and her supporters to investigate her killing as a possible hate crime.

Virginia police officials initially said there is no indication the 17-year-old was targeted because of her religion and that her killing was a “road rage incident” as she and a group of other teens walked and biked along a street headed back to a mosque early Sunday.

But Nabra’s family feels certain she was abducted and killed because she was wearing Islamic clothing as she returned to the All Dulles Area Muslim Society mosque in Sterling after the group had gone out for a late night bite to eat amid their Ramadan observance.

 

Full article:

www.washingtonpost.com/local/public-safety/killing-of-muslim-teen-stirs-questions-about-hate-crime-prosecutions/2017/06/20/4d59e0ac-55ce-11e7-ba90-f5875b7d1876_story.html?utm_term=.16c6ac127d0d