White Supremacist Teen Converts to Islam, Kills Two Roommates

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(Newswire.net — May 26, 2017) — A drama among white supremacist roommates ended in bloodshed after one, having converted to Islam, killed other two for mocking his faith. A fourth one was arrested when the police found bomb compounds at the murder scene, the Tampa News reports.

The police reported the incident on Friday when they took in an 18-year-old man, identified as Devon Arthurs, for killing two men in Tampa, Florida.

On Monday, the police disclosed new details in relation to the double homicide.  

The four friends, who shared an apartment, allegedly belonged to a Neo-Nazi movement. One of them, Devon Arthurs has converted to Islam. After two of his Neo-Nazi roommates, Jeremy Himmelman, 22, and Andrew Oneschuk, 18, had showed disrespect for his new religion, Arthurs shot them, Tampa Bay newspaper wrote, citing police Detective Kenneth Nightlinger.

The police reported that Arthurs was arrested after holding people at gunpoint at the nearby Green Planet Smoke Shop. During the arrest, Arthurs made references to “Allah Mohammed,” the AP and local media wrote, quoting the police. Asked whether anyone else was hurt, he replied: “The people in the apartment, but they’re not hurt, they’re dead.”

The teen told the police that he had shot his two roommates for disrespecting his faith.

“I had to do it,” he said, according to the police report, adding “this wouldn’t have had to happen if your country didn’t bomb my country.”

Reportedly, the suspect told the police “he had been privy to neo-Nazi internet sites threatening to kill people, and he had developed a thinking that he should take some of the neo-Nazis with him.”

The police also arrested a fourth roommate after discovering explosive material in the apartment’s garage. He was identified as Brandon Russell, a member of the Florida National Guard.

The FBI arrested Russell after radioactive substances and HMTD, a higlyh explosive organic compound, were discovered at the murder scene.

He later “admitted to his neo-Nazi beliefs,” saying he was a member of the Atomwaffen group, which is German for ‘atomic weapon.’

Russell claimed he stored material for boosting homemade rockets. In his room, the police also found a framed photo of Timothy McVeigh, domestic terrorist behind the deadly Oklahoma City bombing that killed over 160 people back in 1995.