“We check in all the time,” said Hansia-Gibson, a board member of the Marin Interfaith Council. She said they “showed up for us” and attended a local vigil after the New Zealand mosque shootings that killed 50 people last month. Hansia’s sister, Khadija Hansia-Gibson, 30, called her peers in Marin’s Jewish community after the Saturday attack to ask how they were doing. “People tend to think that Islamophobia, racism can’t happen in liberal metropolitan areas,” Hansia said. The announcement that Peoples may have been motivated by anti-Muslim bigotry came a week before the holy month of Ramadan begins, when mosque attendance spikes.įears of religion- and race-based violence were compounded Saturday when a gunman opened fire in a Southern California synagogue, killing a woman and injuring three others, including a child. Sunnyvale Police Chief Phan Ngo said outside court Friday that investigators found evidence that showed Peoples “targeted the victims based on their race and his belief that they were of the Muslim faith.” Santa Clara County prosecutors charged 34-year-old Isaiah Joel Peoples with eight counts of attempted murder.
Liz Hafalia / The Chronicle 2016 Show More Show Lessĭays before Ramadan, Bay Area Muslims remained unsettled and concerned Sunday about their safety after an Army veteran drove his car into a crowd of people Tuesday in Sunnyvale in what authorities say may have been a hate crime. (Sunnyvale Department of Public Safety via AP, File) Sunnyvale Department of Public Safety Show More Show Less 4 of4 Council on American-Islamic relations executive director Zahra Billoo (left) speaks about gun safety bills in solidarity with other political leaders and gun safety communities during a press conference at the Hiram Johnson State building on Monday, Jin San Francisco, Calif. He was charged Thursday, April 25, 2019, with eight counts of attempted murder. The former Army sharpshooter with a history of post-traumatic stress disorder plowed his car at high speed into a group of pedestrians in a Silicon Valley suburb, injuring eight people, then told authorities that he intentionally hit them, police said. Cody Glenn / Special to The Chronicle Show More Show Less 3 of4 FILE - This file photo released Wednesday, April 24, 2019, by the Sunnyvale Department of Public Safety shows Isaiah Joel Peoples. Tony Avelar / Special to The Chronicle Show More Show Less 2 of4 The scene of car crash on El Camino Real and Sunnyvale Saratoga Roads in Sunnyvale, which police say struck several pedestrians April 23, 2019. Police Chief Ngo offered more details of the crash and said the violent collision was a deliberate act.
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1 of4 Sunnyvale Police Chief Phan Ngo speaks to reporters outside the Sunnyvale Public Safety Department about Isaiah Joel Peoples the driver that was taken into custody after running down eight people on El Camino Real in Sunnyvale Tuesday evening on Thursday, April 25, 2019, in Sunnyvale, Calif.
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