BUFFALO, N.Y. (WBEN)……Saleh Mohamed, the Cheektowaga man, accused of murdering four people including his wife and two young sons, during a June 1 rampage is now facing seven felony indictments from an Erie County Grand Jury.<\/p>\n
And, before he appears in Erie County court on July 8, Judge Deborah Haendiges, on a request from Mohamed’s court-appointed defense team of attorneys Sean Kelly and Kelly Kapperman, ordered the defendant to undergo a competency series of tests to see if he is able to stand trial.<\/p>\n
At issue are language barriers as Mohamed, 29, a Yemen native may not a full command of the English language or laws. <\/p>\n
In court, Monday afternoon, was an interpreter to translate English to Arabic.<\/p>\n
Mohamed made no comment during the 10 minute hearing and Kelly entered a plea of not guilty on behalf of his client.<\/p>\n
Mohamed is accused of shooting, with a 9mm pistol, Black Rock convenience store clerk Shukri Muthana, 43, in the clerk’s Grant Street store at approximately 2:30 p.m. and the one-hour later, following a heated argument with his wife, Aasiha Abudllia, 26, and his two sons, in the couple’s Ellen Drive house.<\/p>\n
All were shot with the 9mm pistol used in the earlier incident, police said.<\/p>\n
The incident happened one day before Mohamed’s 29th birthday.<\/p>\n
“The people’s Grand Jury is complete,” said Justin Caldwell, Erie County assistant district attorney.<\/p>\n
Mohamed is charged with three counts of murder in the first degree for allegedly shooting and killing his wife and two sons – aged 3 years old and 4 years old.<\/p>\n
Mohamed was also charged with four counts of murder in the second degree for allegedly killing all four victims.<\/p>\n
The murder in the first degree charges could see Mohamed, if found guilty, sentenced to life in prison with no parole.<\/p>\n
The murder in the second degree charges comes with a 25 years-to-life prison sentence.<\/p>\n
No bail was set for Mohamed, who remains in custody at the Erie County Holding Center.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BUFFALO, N.Y. (WBEN)……Saleh Mohamed, the Cheektowaga man, accused of murdering four people including his wife and two young…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":219956,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[76402,1611,95842,136,138,137,783],"class_list":["post-219955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-erie","tag-all-local","tag-buffalo","tag-cheektowaga","tag-erie","tag-erie-headlines","tag-erie-news","tag-murder"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219955","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219955"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219955\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/219956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}