Remember this guy? He is an Islamic extremist who tried to murder multiple people at the University of North Carolina (about 30 minutes away as the SUV puts out CO2)
A judge Tuesday sentenced Mohammed Taheri-Azar to 26 to 33 years in prison for plowing into a UNC crowd and injuring nine people in March 2006.
Taheri-Azar, 25, pleaded guilty to nine counts of attempted murder earlier this month for the March 3, 2006, attack at The Pit, a popular outdoor gathering spot at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
The sentence came after several victims had taken the stand to tell Superior Court Judge Carl Fox how the attack has affected their lives. Other victims sent prepared statements that Orange County District Attorney Jim Woodall read for the court.
Good. Have fun spending the best years of your life in jail.
I’m disappointed in WRAL for making no true mention of Tehari-Azar’s radical Islamist beliefs. The closest they come is at the end, where they also show he wanted to commit suicide-by-cop
Taheri-Azar previously said that he drove the Jeep into the crowd to avenge the killings of Muslims by the U.S. across the world.
After the attack, he told police he expected to die as a result of his actions – either by people at the scene attacking him or police shooting him.
The Raleigh News and Observer is rather vauge on the Islamist connections, too.
