{"id":256699,"date":"2026-06-05T19:21:18","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T19:21:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/256699\/"},"modified":"2026-06-05T19:21:18","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T19:21:18","slug":"wife-and-two-kids-found-dead-in-ny-home-after-husband-killed-store-clerk-prosecutors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/256699\/","title":{"rendered":"Wife and two kids found dead in NY home after husband killed store clerk: prosecutors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A crazed upstate New York husband went home and murdered his wife and two young kids an hour after gunning down a store owner, according to prosecutors.<\/p>\n<p>Saleh Q. Mohamed, 29, allegedly started his Buffalo murder spree by shooting deli owner Shukri Muthana, 43, in the chest at around 2:30 p.m. Monday, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wkbw.com\/news\/local-news\/buffalo\/community-mourns-man-who-was-1-of-4-people-killed-in-back-to-back-shootings-in-buffalo-cheektowaga\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">KBKW reported<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>As cops were investigating that, calls came in an hour later about a shooting at Mohamed\u2019s home in Cheektowaga \u2014 where a neighbor reported hearing gunshots and \u201cscreaming,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wgrz.com\/article\/news\/crime\/i-thought-i-heard-a-nail-gun-then-all-hell-broke-loose-neighbor-describes-homicide-scene-in-cheektowaga\/71-e6f32c18-2fd2-4222-976d-d5687cc33200\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">WGRZ reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Saleh Q. Mohamed, 29, is facing four murder charges after Monday\u2019s shootings. WGRZ-TV<\/p>\n<p>There, responding officers found the bodies of the accused killer\u2019s 26-year-old wife, Aaisha Abdulla, and their sons, ages 4 and 3. All three had been shot.<\/p>\n<p>A neighbor who lives two doors down said she heard what sounded \u201clike six or seven pops, like a nail gun going off.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd then it was quiet, and then all sorts of hell broke loose with, like, the screaming, like, people legitimately screaming,\u201d the woman, who did not wish to share her name, told WGRZ.<\/p>\n<p>She said police tackled Mohamed outside, and saw two others being detained. The family had lived in the home for about two years, she said.<\/p>\n<p>Mohamed\u2019s relationship with Muthana was not immediately clear. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s an unbelievably sad occasion for the community here,\u201d Dr. Khalid Qazi, president of the Muslim Public Affairs Council,\u00a0told WKBW.<\/p>\n<p>Mohamed killed a deli owner before killing his family, prosecutors said. WGRZ-TV<\/p>\n<p>The family members were killed at a home in Cheektowaga  WGRZ-TV<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEverybody is trying to get grips on this unbelievably sad situation. Nobody can seem to understand why it would happen, what the reasons behind it is, and how it can be prevented in the future.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mohamed is charged with one count of first-degree murder for the Buffalo shooting and three counts of second-degree murder for his wife and children\u2019s deaths. He is being held without bail.<\/p>\n<p>If convicted, Mohamed faces a maximum sentence of life in prison without parole, the Erie County District Attorney\u2019s Office said, while noting that \u201cadditional charges may be filed.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A crazed upstate New York husband went home and murdered his wife and two young kids an hour&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":256700,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[4243,303,57,238,9,11,10,3980,9821,58],"class_list":["post-256699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-buffalo-new-york","tag-crime","tag-metro","tag-murders","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-shootings","tag-upstate","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=256699"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256699\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/256700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=256699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=256699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=256699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}