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August 16, 2016

Police, Muslims seek answers after cleric and associate killed in Queens

A crowd of community members pray next to the coffins as they gather for the funeral service of Imam Maulama Akonjee in the Queens borough of New York City, on August 15, 2016.

NEW YORK – Police were questioning a possible suspect in the double homicide of a popular imam and his associate in Queens but there was still no clear motive even as the shocking daylight murders were becoming a flashpoint in the national debate over anti-Islamic rhetoric.

Published in International