Obama condemns `outrageous murders' in North Carolina
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President Obama has made his first comments about the three young Muslims who were shot to death in North Carolina -- saying no one in America should ever be targeted "because of who they are, what they look like or how they worship."
Obama says in a statement that the FBI will determine whether federal laws were violated in what he calls "the brutal and outrageous murders."
Police say the three were killed Tuesday -- allegedly by their neighbor -- in a long-running dispute over parking spaces. But some have questioned whether the violence was connected to their Muslim faith.
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The FBI inquiry is running parallel to the local police homicide investigation.
The victims' families are demanding a hate-crime investigation.