Jury acquits Pittsburgh man accused of shooting cab driver
PITTSBURGH (AP) – A Pittsburgh man has been acquitted of charges he shot a cab driver who had just taken him home from a casino.
Twenty-seven-year-old Anthony Mohamed was not found not guilty Tuesday of attempted homicide, aggravated assault and reckless endangerment in the 2015 Thanksgiving Day shooting.
Defense attorney Patrick Sweeney says police found no useful fingerprints, no DNA matches and no weapon matching the damage to the cab or driver Hakim Ghorbal’s wounds. He says Ghorbal also couldn’t pick Mohamed out of a photo lineup in the hospital a few days after the shooting.
After the shooting, activists pressed for hate crime charges in the case. Ghorbal, who is Muslim, had told the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette that Mohamed spoke about ISIS and satirized the prophet Muhammad before Ghorbal was shot.