

The suit was brought by a 17-year-old employee at the gym. In 2017 Miedema was involved in a lawsuit while working at a World's Gym on Homestead Road North in Lehigh Acres. Army. He was sentenced to 78 months in federal prison followed by two months of probation, authorities said. In 2011, he was convicted of one count of lewd or lascivious battery, intercourse with a victim 12 to 15 years old and one count of possession of child pornography while serving in the U.S. Miedema, according to state records, was a registered sex offender in Lee County. Blue alerts are published through the state's Emergency Alert System to phones, television, radio and message boards when a law enforcement officer is killed, seriously injured or missing in the line of duty and there's still a threat to the public. The incident initially caused FDLE to issue a Blue Alert before midnight.

“Continued prayers for Troy and our family, we have the utmost faith in God's grace and healing mercy.”Īnderson previously worked for Taylor County Sheriff's Office, before leaving for another job and returning in November, joining the department’s K-9 unit, Padgett said. “He is sedated waiting to be evaluated by a neurosurgeon concerning the wound to his neck which is extremely close to an artery,” wrote Anderson’s uncle on Facebook, before telling the Democrat he was in stable condition Wednesday afternoon. "If a bias-motive is determined, state and federal authorities should apply appropriate hate crime charges," said Nihad Awad, the national executive director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations.Īfter news reports on the incidents began circulating, the Anti-Defamation League's Mountain States Region also called for prosecutors to pursue hate.According to Anderson's uncle, he was shot in three places: Hand, jaw and neck. Meanwhile, the nation's largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, based in Washington, D.C., announced it is offering a $5,000 reward for information that leads to an arrest and conviction in the case. "But this evil guy who committed this crime, he doesn't have any kind of religion, doesn't have any kind of sympathy, passion, mercy at all." "All of us, not only Muslim, all other communities, they were shocked and saddened by such type of death to those people that are innocent - they did nothing," Eldenawi said. Imam Mahmoud Eldenawi spoke in Arabic, reciting from the Quran, and spoke about life and death and the recent homicides. APD is also increasing its presence at all mosques in the city for the foreseeable future. Several police cars were parked nearby and an Albuquerque Police Department spokesman said community leaders had requested their presence as a precaution.

The crowd - mostly Muslim but not entirely - filled the mosque for the reading of the Friday prayer and the funeral prayer. Muhammad Afzaal Hussain, 27, was killed on Monday less than a block from his apartment in a neighborhood south of the University of New Mexico and Aftab Hussein, 41, was killed on July 26 on Rhode Island NE, near Wyoming and Copper. Police have said they are investigating whether the same person - or persons - is responsible for their deaths and that of another Muslim man, 62-year-old Mohammad Ahmadi, who was killed in November behind the halal market he and his brother owned.

5-More than 1,000 mourners gathered at the Islamic Center of New Mexico on Friday afternoon for the funerals of two Muslim men who were ambushed and shot to death in the past week and a half.
