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Wednesday 17 Feb 2016 - 12:53 Makkah mean time-8-5-1437
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Texas, (IINA) - The North Texas Muslim community is raising questions after a murder suspect being investigated for a hate crime was released from jail twice, Fox4 News reported.
Dallas police say on Christmas Eve, Anthony Torres opened fire at Omar's Wheels and Tires on South Buckner Boulevard in Pleasant Grove. A non-Muslim man sitting in his car was killed, a Middle-Eastern shop employee was shot and bullets grazed others. Police say Torres had been to the shop before, saying Muslims were "making problems" and he was going to come back and kill them.
Omar Suleiman said "Quite frankly this endangers anyone that could possibly be mistaken for Middle Eastern."
Torres was charged with a hate crime, one count of murder and two counts of aggravated assault.
He was released last month after posting the $150,000 bond.
The Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) renewed its call for federal agents to investigate the shooting as an act of domestic terrorism after learning that Torres had not only been released from Dallas County, but arrested and released again.
"We are horrified that such a dangerous criminal had bail set to begin with but the fact that it was set so low is absolutely inexcusable, Alia Salem said.
In Rockwall, Torres was arrested Thursday for knocking over vases at an office building telling police "he was tired of the rich oppressing the poor.
Police say he lied about his name and ended up with being charged with "Criminal Mischief" and "Fail to Identify. "Rockwall police "requested a high bond" but the say "a jailer missed the request."
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