Police said the man who killed three people on a shooting spree in downtown Fresno, Calif., on Tuesday while shouting "Allahu Akbar" wanted to kill as many white people as possible.

Kori Ali Muhammad, 39, knew he was being searched for and he "decided he was going to kill more people," Fresno Police Chief Jerry Dyer said.

During his arrest, Muhammad shouted "Allahu Akbar," but Dyer said the shootings had "nothing to do with terrorism in spite of the statement he made."

"This is solely based on race," Dyer told reporters.
FBI officials told Fox News the agency is not treating the shooting as an incident of terror, but is sending agents to the scene at request of local police. 

Fresno Mayor Lee Brand said it was "a sad day for us all" in a statement to FOX 26.

Muhammad first walked up to a utility truck and shot a Pacific Gas & Electric Co. employee sitting in the passenger seat. The driver of the truck, who is Latino, sped off to the police department for help, but the worker, a 34-year-old white man, died.

Muhammad then shot at another person and missed, police said. He aimed at a third, killing the 37-year-old on the sidewalk as he walked with a bag of groceries. The final victim, 58, was gunned down in the parking lot of a charity building, authorities said.
Dyer said Muhammad approached a vehicle in between shootings, but he spared the lives of two Latina women who were in the car with a child.

“These were unprovoked attacks by an individual that was intent on carrying out homicides today. He did that," Dyer said.

Police had put out a news release hours before the shootings Tuesday, saying that Muhammad was armed and dangerous and wanted in the shooting death of a security guard at a Motel 6 last week. The guard, 25-year-old Carl Williams, was white.

Muhammad told officers at his arrest that he was the guy they were looking for, Dyer said.
"I did it. I shot them," Dyer said Muhammad told officers.
Police are searching for the revolver Muhammad said he tossed into a pile of clothing. The gun may have been picked up by someone else, Dyer said.

Muhammad faces four counts of murder and at least two additional charges of assault with a deadly weapon.

Stephen Hughes, 66, said he and his wife rushed home Tuesday after receiving a frantic call from a neighbor. Hughes came home to see a body draped in a blanket on the sidewalk leading to his front door.
He first thought the shooting was gang-related, but then he noticed the bag of groceries near the body. "It looks like a guy carrying his groceries home from the store," Hughes said.

On what appeared to be Muhammad's Facebook page, he repeatedly posted "#LetBlackPeopleGo" and encouraged "black warriors" to "mount up." A flurry of posts emerged in the past day.

He wrote that his "kill rate increases tremendously on the other side" and also posted about "white devils." On several occasions, he wrote updates that included the phrase "Allahu Akbar," meaning "God is great" in Arabic.

Muhammad has a criminal history that includes arrests on weapons, drugs and false imprisonment charges and making terrorist threats. He had been associated with gangs but he was not a confirmed member, police say.

Muhammad was charged in 2005 with possessing cocaine with intent to distribute, court records show. Federal prosecutors said at the time that he was also in possession of a 9mm semi-automatic handgun and two rifles after being convicted of a felony.

He claimed insanity, and his attorney requested a psychiatric examination for his client, saying Muhammad "appeared eccentric with some bizarre beliefs." A psychiatrist who examined Muhammad believed he had psychosis, Muhammad's attorney said in the court filing.

He also "suffered auditory hallucinations and had at least two prior mental health hospitalizations," according to court documents. His attorney said that Muhammad had "paranoia" and thought the justice system and his defense attorney were conspiring against him, court papers said.

The attorney who represented Muhammad in that case did not return a call for comment Tuesday.

Public records list Muhammad as Cory Taylor and other aliases with addresses in Fresno and Sacramento. Fresno's police chief said his former name was Cory McDonald. A woman who identified herself as Taylor's grandmother said Tuesday that the family last saw him on Easter Sunday. She hung up the phone before giving her name.
"I never would have thought he would do anything like this," sad Muhammad's brother, who asked not to be identified by name. "I'm just kind of shocked."

He described his brother as a funny and intelligent man.
Police say two of the victims may have been clients of Catholic Charities, which provides a variety of services for refugees, the homeless and those with disabilities.

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2017/04/19/fresno-shooting-rampage-suspected-gunman-wanted-to-kill-as-many-white-people-as-possible-cops-say.html

how odd and sad, people are snapping for no apparent reason,,,


I hope the victims families receive justice for their loss

Yeah, no apparent reason........ With Barry and the Black Lives Matters getting people to over react.........

yeah, that was the reason,,,

People snap all the time.
Always have.

Question is why so full of fear or hatred they're grabbing guns, knives, bombs, cars, and killing random strangers rather than buying a red convertible and picking up a trophy wife, or selling everything they own to go live on a Caribbean island, or just drinking a gallon of Dran-o, or renouncing worldly possessions, or volunteering for the big brother/big sister program, or getting into bar fights.

Are people unable to snap more often in small ways over the course of their life necessitating a big snap with larger more meaningful consequences?

What's the need to impose death and ideology onto strangers rather than all the other ways people tend to express their breaking point and needing change or sense of life control.

Kori Ali Muhammad
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What a shock!!.. not.. its Wednesday, been a day or 2 since the last one.

They gotta keep the ball rolling ya know

almost as often as other gun owners,,,,,

people with guns killing people,, what a shock,,,

http://www.massshootingtracker.org/data

list is JUST in the USA,,,where I live, and NOT predominantly people with names like Muhammad,,,just FYI

Gun man wants to kill as many white people as possible..

Such a refreshing change from the norm...

Well I can't open your attachment for some reason. I will try again later. But since you are on a killer tracking assignment, how about pulling up the list of those murdered in Chicago last year.. and their killers too.

but I will warn you... its a very long list... very long

That hyperlink has been corrected so that it now works.

a tangent?

were they killed by people with names like mohammed?

statistically mass murders in america are fractional... very very low especially considering how many gun owners exist in america...typical liberal bs blaming the gun for the shooting...and this guy wanted to kill as many white people as possible yet only got four total...an avid gun enthusiast could've done that with a bb gun...the good ole msm at work again let's blame guns for shootings and make sure racial issues remain a problem for everyone...

kind of my point,, blame race or guns or religion,, the same distraction

violent people do violent things

yup ur 100 on that...but come on harmony.. hold people accountable for themselves? whoever heard of such nonsense?

we are all just the result of our experiences, opportunities, and exposure,,,


we focus so much on blaming in a blanket fashion, and not enough on understanding the details that culminate into these things,,,

the apparent reason is that compared too a lot of countries the so called
free world and most of all the U S does not have very harsh penalties for
major crimes

you could import someone from a 3rd world country to kill anyone in a
non-death penalty state and they get life so lets see they have steady
safe shelter much better medical care 3 meals a day and they are no
longer starving and having to hide from political faction that are
committing ethnic cleansing to over throw the ruling party basically
compared to home they may be in prison but they have it made

I am not sure how 'safe' our prisons are or how many of our major crimes are committed by non native Americans,,,,not to mention many many western countries dont have our crime and do not have death penalty either,,,

very good so lets punish the violent people and leave the law biding
people alone taking a gun from a law biding person only increases the
chances you will be shot by a violent person because if the law biding
citizen cant shoot back and the violent one knows it they will become
even more violent and shoot more often

the states with the least amount of gun control has the lowest crime
rate if you don't believe it prove it wrong i know it and if you dont
then do your homework and disprove it

least restrictive gun laws by state

http://www.deseretnews.com/top/3430/0/The-10-states-with-the-least-restrictive-gun-laws.html

the restrictiveness of their laws and how they rank on gun deaths compared to other states are all over the chart,,,there is no clear correlation that lax gun laws reduce gun death,,

not that this thread was making any argument about gun laws

and what are they

i said nothing about gun death i said crime rates

somehow i thought it was about behavior and i thought someone wondered
how and why this happened ---- thus it is all related