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This does not bode well:"A University graduate with at least one prior arrest careened a rented silver Jeep Grand Cherokee through the Pit about noon Friday, striking nine pedestrians and sending six to UNC Hospitals with minor injuries.
Mohammed Reza Taheri-azar, 22, who formerly lived at 3125 English Sparrow Lane in Charlotte and who graduated in 2005, was taken from the Department of Public Safety to Orange County Jail at 6:20 p.m. |
The scariest part:"Taheri-azar, who is from Iran, had a grim expression on his face as he was escorted from DPS headquarters. He is being charged with nine counts of attempted first-degree murder and nine counts of assault with a deadly weapon inflicting serious injury with intent to kill, according to the latest University press release.
Capt. Joel Booker of the Carrboro police said he was not qualifying the incident as being related to any anti-Americanism, as has been widely reported and suspected. But the investigation was conducted with the "world situation" in mind, he added.
"I don't have a label for what he did. I don't understand what he did," he said. |
And:"Kolko, who was quoted in an Associated Press article as saying that the suspect "allegedly made statements that he acted to avenge the American treatment of Muslims," said the FBI simply is assisting the investigation at this time.
He said he does not know if the alleged statements are true.
Carrboro Mayor Mark Chilton said the actual circumstances of the situation will come out in due time. |
Weird circumstances:"According to Charlotte police records, a Mohamed Dahran Taheri, who has the same Charlotte address as the one University records listed at one time for Taheri-azar, was arrested on April 15, 1999, on charges of operating a vehicle without a license and reckless driving with intent to endanger. Both counts were dismissed.
It is unclear whether Taheri and Taheri-azar are the same person. Taheri's birth date, for example, is listed as March 5, 1982 - not May 5. Police records, however, state that no other person named Mohammed is listed as a resident of 3125 English Sparrow Lane in Charlotte. Additionally, campus police initially pegged Taheri-azar's age at 23. |
No idea if these things are connected, but The Daily Tar Heel, UNC's student paper, ran the controversial Muhammad cartoons a while back, which caused some outrage, and Jillian Bandes, who was kicked off that paper for calling for racial profiling of Muslim students, is already gloating as if she was correct.
I see bad things coming from this.
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