After weeks of anguish and questions, there may finally be justice coming in the death of Iman Hassan Sharif.
Three individuals, including Abdush K. Sharif, 36, were arrested on Friday, Jan. 26, at a residence in Newark, and charged with 4th degree Violation of Regulatory Provisions Relating to Firearms. Sharif and Kevin Rogers, 46, are being held in the Essex County Correctional Facility pending detention hearings. Dashawn Kinchen, 49, was released on a summons.
Sharif had opened 253-257 South Orange Ave. for 6:15 a.m. Fajr prayers like most any other morning. He did recall encountering and subduing a hostile individual while opening the mosque some six months ago.
He walked back to his car parked in the lot off the northwest corner of South Orange Avenue and Camden Street, which the mosque shares with a church, after 6 a.m.
It was in Sharif’s car where they found him with two gunshot wounds to his chest. He was rushed to Newark’s University Hospital two blocks away, where he died at 2:21 p.m.
The investigation into the homicide of Iman Hassan Sharif is active and ongoing.
