Latest: Chaplain: Mosque has faith in police investigation
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The Latest on the killing of a teenage girl as she and her friends returned to a mosque in Virginia (all times local):
7:30 p.m.
A chaplain at the mosque where a slain teen worshipped says members have faith in the police investigation of the fatal attack.
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Joshua Salaam of the ADAMS Center said at a press conference Tuesday that police "have given us complete confidence." Seventeen-year-old Nabra Hassanen was slain over the weekend in northern Virginia.
Salaam said the community is struggling because Hassanen was beloved by so many and well-known for her kind spirit.
He said that, although the incident is not being investigated as a hate crime, some in the Muslim community may feel that it is, and they're dealing with that.
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Funeral services will be held Wednesday for Hassanen. Imam Mohamed Magid asked the public to give the family and friends space to grieve in private.
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This item has corrected the spelling of Imam Mohamed Magid's name.
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5:10 p.m.
For the second time, a young graphic artist's rendering of Muslim victims of violence is spreading across the world.
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Mohammad Alsalti is a 23-year-old who lives in Raleigh, North Carolina. He said in an interview Tuesday that he created an image in honor of Nabra Hassanen, the 17-year-old Muslim girl who was slain over the weekend in northern Virginia.
The likeness shows a pair of glasses like the ones Hassanen wore, over the outline of her face, wrapped in a headscarf, with the hashtag #Nabra. It's being shared widely online.
Alsalti says he created a similar graphic that went viral in 2015 after three young Muslims were gunned down in their North Carolina home.
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Alsalti says Hassanen's slaying hits close to home because he has a sister around her age who looks "just like her."
He says that even though police aren't investigating her killing as a hate crime, it's generating concern among Muslims, and a feeling that "you have to watch your back."
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4:25 p.m.
A neighbor of the man accused of killing a Virginia teenager says the suspect was a quiet loner who did not appear to have a steady job.
Roger Provus is a 58-year-old disabled Navy veteran who said he lives in an apartment near 22-year-old Darwin Martinez Torres.
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Provus says Martinez Torres smoked cigarettes and sometimes wore the same clothes for two or three days at a time. He says they spoke occasionally, when he asked Martinez Torres not to leave trash in the halls and stairwells.
Martinez Torres is being held without bail on a murder charge in the slaying of 17-year-old Nabra Hassanen. He has a public defender whose office declined comment.
Meanwhile, immigration authorities put a detainer on him, saying there's probable cause to believe he lacks permission to be in the U.S.
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3:10 p.m.
A woman who came to the door at the last known address of the man accused of killing a Virginia teenager says he had been renting a room in the apartment with his wife and their young child.
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The woman refused to open the door Tuesday afternoon. She said through the closed door in Spanish that the wife and child moved out after 22-year-old Darwin Martinez Torres was arrested. The woman said that's because of scrutiny of the case.
The apartment was in a sprawling complex with predominantly Spanish-speaking tenants.
A neighbor, who also refused to give her name, said in Spanish that Torres had been living there for at least two years and that he and his wife had a 4-year-old daughter.
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Martinez Torres, a citizen of El Salvador, is being held without bail on a murder charge. He was appointed a public defender whose office has declined comment.
Meanwhile, immigration authorities put a detainer on him, saying there's probable cause to believe he lacks permission to be in the U.S.
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1:45 p.m.
A funeral service is planned for Wednesday for slain Muslim teen Nabra Hassanen at her northern Virginia mosque.
The All Dulles Area Muslim Society mosque announced in a statement that a funeral prayer service for the 17-year-old will be held Wednesday at 1:30 p.m.
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Police say Hassanen was returning to the mosque with a group of about 15 teenagers early Sunday during a break from Ramadan prayers when a driver approached them and began arguing with one of the boys. Police say he chased the group in his car, then got out with a baseball bat and caught up with Hassanen, brutally beating her.
Then, police say, he drove off with her in his car, attacked her again, and dumped her body in a pond. Twenty-two-year-old Darwin Martinez Torres has been charged with murder.
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11:45 a.m.
The principal of the suburban Washington high school that slain Muslim teen Nabra Hassanen attended says the 10th grader was a beloved student and a friend to all.
South Lakes High School Principal Kim Retzer said in a letter Tuesday that she visited with Nabra's family a day earlier. Retzer says she offered condolences and says Nabra will be greatly missed.
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Authorities have said an angry driver attacked Nabra with a baseball bat, put her in his car and took her to another location where he attacked her again. Her body was found in a pond.
Police say the 17-year-old left a Sterling-area mosque between Ramadan prayers to get food at a McDonald's with other teenagers. They were on their way back when Darwin Martinez Torres, 22, drove up to their group and an altercation ensued.
The incident is not being investigated as a hate crime.
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Retzer's letter says school counselors and a Fairfax County Public Schools crisis team were available Tuesday to support students or staff. She says crisis support also will be available in the coming days.
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10 a.m.
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Vigils are being planned around the country to honor a Muslim teen who police say was fatally beaten with a baseball bat by an angry driver as she walked with friends to a Virginia mosque this weekend.
Women's Initiative for Self-Empowerment CEO Rana Abdelhamid said by telephone that her group is partnering with groups in cities around the nation to hold vigils Tuesday for 17-year-old Nabra Hassanen and stand in solidarity with her family.
Abdelhamid says there are vigils planned in New York, Washington, Boston, Philadelphia, San Francisco, Los Angeles and Detroit. A vigil also is planned for Wednesday in Hassanen's hometown of Reston, Virginia.
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Police say the Egyptian-American girl died of blunt force trauma to the upper body after 22-year-old Darwin Martinez Torres of El Salvador attacked her with a baseball bat in a Washington suburb. Police have described it as a road rage incident and say there's no evidence to suggest it was a hate crime.
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3:30 a.m.
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Authorities say a man charged with murder in the death of a Muslim teen who was attacked near her Virginia mosque became enraged after getting in a fight with one of the girl's friends.
Police say 17-year-old Nabra Hassanen died of blunt force trauma to the upper body after 22-year-old Darwin Martinez Torres attacked her with a baseball bat in a Washington suburb.
Police have described it as a road rage incident and say there's no evidence to suggest it was a hate crime.
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The girl's father says he doesn't understand how this could have happened and that his daughter was a friend to everyone.
Martinez Torres was arraigned Monday and denied bail pending a July 19 court appearance. A judge appointed him a public defender, whose office declined comment.