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		</div><p>Police arrested and charged a man with murder over the fatal shootings of an imam and his friend as they left a New York City mosque over the weekend.</p>
<p>Oscar Morel, 35, was charged with two counts of second-degree murder and two counts of criminal possession of a weapon, police said.</p>
<p>Morel, who police said hit a cyclist with his SUV just 10 minutes after Saturday&#8217;s shooting in Queens, was taken into custody late on Sunday night, said the New York Police Department&#8217;s chief of detectives, Robert Boyce.</p>
<p>Morel could be seen on the surveillance video fleeing the area of the shooting in a black GMC Trailblazer after Imam Maulana Alauddin Akonjee and Thara Uddin were shot in the head, Mr Boyce said.</p>
<p>About 10 minutes later, a car matching that description struck a cyclist about three miles away in Brooklyn, he said.</p>
<p>Morel was arrested outside a Brooklyn flat after he intentionally rammed his car into an unmarked police cruiser trying to block him in, Mr Boyce said.</p>
<p>Charges against the Brooklyn man were upgraded on Monday night after police said they recovered a revolver at his home and clothes similar to those being worn in a surveillance video that showed the gunman.</p>
<p>Earlier on Monday, about 1,000 people gathered under tents to praise Mr Akonjee, 55, and Mr Uddin, 64, at an Islamic funeral service where emotions ran high.</p>
<p>The ceremony featured several speakers who said they believed the victims were targeted because of their religion. Some members of the congregation shouted &#8220;justice&#8221; throughout the service.</p>
<p>After the ceremony, part of the crowd marched to the spot where the shooting took place.</p>
<p>Mayor Bill de Blasio told those gathered that the entire city was &#8220;mourning with you&#8221;.</p>
<p>The authorities have not revealed a motive for the killings, though Mr Boyce said the possibility that the murders were a hate crime is &#8220;certainly on the table&#8221;.</p>
<p>Some in the largely Bangladeshi Muslim community in Queens and Brooklyn have described harassment in recent months by people who shouted anti-Muslim epithets.</p>
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