INDIANAPOLIS (WTHR) – Officers who investigate homicides for the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department tell Eyewitness News that a deadly weekend shooting started with road rage on I-465 and ended about a mile away.
The family of Mustafa Ayoubi shared their favorite photograph of him with Eyewitness News. In the photo, the 32 year old couldn’t have been happier after just winning a huge trophy in his cricket tournament.
Metro police believe sometime before 8 p.m. Saturday, Ayoubi drove southbound on I-465 on Indy’s northwest side. Then, just before the West 38th Street exit, the road rage started, according to police.
“I said to him respect, please respect, go away, please go away,“ said Niraj Bhatt, a friend of Ayoubi.
Late Monday afternoon, witnesses told Mustafa Ayoubi’s family about racial slurs that were made after the road rage incident.
Dr. Usman Ashraf said, “The guy that was in the car that was the shooter, he was screaming obscene words, saying Muhammad is a pedophile, Muhammad is, you all are, you follow worse kind of people, you follow Muhammad, he was saying a lot of bad words about Muhammad.”
Officers arrested 33-year-old Dustin Passarelli of Plainfield, Indiana on a pending charge of murder.
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