Vigils will be held for slain 17-year-old Nabra Hassanen, who was killed after walking back to her mosque in Virginia, as more details have emerged about the immigration status of the suspect jailed in her death.
Police said that a man fatally beat her with a bat during a road-rage incident, CNN reported. Officials added the attack likely wasn’t a hate crime.
Darwin Martinez Torres, 22, was charged with murder after police found her body in a nearby pond, NBC Washington reported. Her father, however, believes she was attacked because of her religion.
“Because she is a Muslim,” father Mahmoud Hassanen said. “She has Muslim clothes.”
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