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    Muslim kills Fresno sheriff's deputy "during prayer&quo

    Prayer may be tied to killingTestimony in Abdullah murder trial raises the issue.By Chris Collins / The Fresno Bee03/27/08 23:12:12Related Content
    Excerpts of court-ordered psychological reports on Ramadan Abdullah



    Testimony in Ramadan Abdullah's murder trial Thursday indicates that after Abdullah shot a sheriff's deputy in a rural Fresno County home, he may have engaged in prayer while police surrounded the house for 5 1/2 hours.

    On the night of Aug. 21, 2001, Abdullah, then 20, shot and killed sheriff's deputy Erik Telen as Telen, 26, rounded a corner in a house Abdullah had broken into earlier that day. Deputies dragged Telen out of the home and then surrounded the house until Abdullah surrendered shortly after midnight.

    Abdullah is on trial in Fresno County Superior Court. He has been diagnosed with schizophrenia and has pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity. If convicted and found to be sane, Abdullah faces the death penalty.

    Defense attorney Pete Jones says Abdullah, now 26, is a devout Muslim who came from New York to California to find spiritual healing.

    On Thursday, Fresno County sheriff's detective Mark Chapman testified that after Abdullah surrendered, Chapman entered the house and found Abdullah's shoes and socks in the living room. He also found a sheet crumpled on the floor next to a pillow. Adjacent to the pillow were three bullets -- each placed upright on their base -- in a line pointing in a northeasterly direction.

    Muslims pray five times a day. They remove their shoes and face toward Mecca, which in Fresno County is in a northeasterly direction.

    Though neither prosecutor Dennis Peterson nor Chapman explicitly said Abdullah may have been praying during the police standoff, Peterson took pains to have Chapman point out which side of the house the sun rises on. Other witnesses testified that Abdullah was barefoot when he finally left the house. And when asked whether there was anything unusual about the three bullets lined up on the floor, Chapman replied, "I can't really explain the symbolic value of that."

    In an interview with a psychologist after his arrest, Abdullah said that he shot Telen "while I was in prayer."

    Chapman also testified that a Bible and three small religious figurines -- statuettes of Joseph, Mary and Jesus -- were found scattered on the floor next to a lamp stand. Peterson said the Bible and figurines belonged to the homeowners.

    According to court documents, Abdullah shot Telen after the deputy and his partner entered the house, which was near Dunlap in the Fresno County foothills. A neighbor had told Telen that Abdullah had broken into the home. When Telen rounded a corner into the living room, Abdullah was waiting, crouched behind a cast-iron stove. He fired buckshot from a shotgun and struck Telen in the head.

    The main dispute in Abdullah's trial is not whether he shot Telen, but whether Abdullah was insane at the time and whether his mental illness caused him to pull the trigger.

    Today, more law enforcement officers who were at the crime scene are expected to testify.
    The reporter can be reached at ccollins@fresnobee.com or (559) 441-6412.
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    Does one normally hold onto a gun while praying? He's not insane, he's gaming the dumb American system!
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    1. Breaks into a house.
    2. Armed with a shotgun.
    3. Praying and shoots deputy--according to his religion, doesn't killing a 'non-believer' assure him a place in heaven?
    4. Prayed after the murder during the stand-off--completely in control to follow his routine customs.

    He also found a sheet crumpled on the floor next to a pillow. Adjacent to the pillow were three bullets -- each placed upright on their base -- in a line pointing in a northeasterly direction.
    Symbolic that he 'followed his religious beliefs'. Could it mean he killed two others in the past in addition to the deputy?
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