Indiana is one of just five states without a hate crimes statute to cover cases like the shooting death of Mustafa Ayoubi.
Thirty-two-year-old Mustafa Ayoubi was shot and killed on Feb. 16 in Indianapolis. Police officers arrested Dustin Passarelli as a murder suspect and are calling the incident a case of road rage turned violent. But Ayoubi’s family believe the Muslim American was killed in a hate crime.
“We don’t believe it was road rage. He meant to kill Mustafa,” Zahra Ayoubi, the sister of the deceased, told HuffPost. “I don’t want Mustafa’s name to be just gone, that he was a victim of road rage. He was a victim of a hate crime.”
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