Kansas City: Muslim teen hit-and-run murder involved car with “Islam is worse than Ebola” bumper sticker

The SUV used by 34-year-old Ahmed H. Aden when he rammed down 15-year-old Abdisamad Sheikh-Hussein had a sticker that read “Islam is worse than Ebola”. The police added that they had spotted the SUV cruising in the area in late October, when they took note of the sticker’s message.

Last Thursday, Aden rammed the car into Sheikh-Hussein and a friend as they were heading to play basketball. In a police statement, a witness mentioned that they saw the teenager “fly through the air” after being hit by the car. Both his legs were detached in the incident, causing massive bleeding which eventually resulted in his death.

Aden attempted to escape on foot after the crash, with contradictory eye-witness reports suggesting that he either swung a baseball bat at people trying to stop him or that he threatened to shoot them with a handgun.

After being captured by the police, Aden first insisted that it was an accident, before saying that he attacked Sheikh-Hussein thinking he was the person who had threatened him a few days earlier.

“It became pretty clear that this was not an accidental crash, there is a considerable amount of evidence that leads us to believe it was intentional,” Sergeant Bill Mahoney of the Kansas City Police Department said.

A Somali-national of Christian faith, Aden was notorious in the neighborhood, with people from the Somali Center of Kansas City telling police that he had threatened them for months, even waving a gun at people and threatening to kill them for being Muslims.

Aden is being detained at Jackson County jail; the FBI is investigating if the incident was a hate crime.

The community of Somali Muslims in the city is still in shock over the incident.

Multi-faith messages of support were sent to Abdisamad Sheikh-Hussein’s family as the community and the teen’s loved ones said their last goodbye’s during Saturday’s service at the Islamic Society of Greater Kansas City.

Multi-faith messages of support were sent for Abdisamad’s family and the stunned community as the boy’s loved ones prepared to say their last goodbyes in a service on Saturday at the Islamic Society of Greater Kansas City.

Abdinajib Dirir, Sheikh-Hussein’s uncle told that the family was devastated over his death.

“There are no words to describe. This is a community that fled a violent situation. Now we’re facing violence in the United States … We are American like everyone else. And this is a tragedy for us”, he said.