Afghan refugee convicted in New Mexico Muslim killings case

FILE PHOTO: View of the Islamic Center For New Mexico (ICNM) mosque, where some of the four Muslim men murdered in the city in the last nine months, worshipped, in Albuquerque, New Mexico, U.S. August 10, 2022. REUTERS/Andrew Hay/File Photo

(Reuters) - A New Mexico jury on Monday found an Afghan asylum seeker guilty of murdering a Pakistani immigrant in one of three ambush-style shootings of Muslim men that terrified the Islamic community in the state's largest city during the summer of 2022.

Muhammad Syed, 53, faces life imprisonment for the first-degree murder of 41-year-old Aftab Hussein who was found dead in southeast Albuquerque on July 26, 2022, next to a vehicle that police said had been shot up.