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An imam who was shot on Wednesday outside a mosque near New York has died.
Police in the city of Newark, New Jersey, did not give a motive for the incident.
Newark Public Safety Director Fritz Frage had earlier confirmed “police responded to a call of a male shot” Wednesday morning.
Officers confirmed that the man was the imam, and that the incident happened outside a mosque. An investigation is underway.
Images published by the New Jersey chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) showed police vehicles deployed outside the Masjid Muhammad-Newark mosque, a two-story yellow and green complex.
At a news conference, state Attorney General Matt Platkin said investigators still don’t know the motive behind the shooting.
