A community is still coping with the murder of a beloved Columbus faith leader back in 2021.And Thursday, the second of two men involved in the crime, will lear
John Wooden Jr. was convicted of aggravated murder, aggravated kidnapping and robbery in the death of Imam Mohamed Hassan Adam. A community is still coping with the murder of a beloved Columbus faith leader back in 2021.Man to serve at least 26 years in prison in Columbus imam's death
Mohamed Hassan Adam, an imam at the Masjid Abu Hurairah mosque and a leader in the local Muslim and Somali communities, disappeared in late December 2021. Following a search involving police and the community, his body was discovered in a vacant lot in Columbus' South Linden neighborhood. "The community's still reeling from the trauma and the shock," Imam Horsed Noah, outreach director for the Somali Islamic Centers of Ohio, said Wednesday. "Because this was, he was not only Imam, he was a community leader. He was everybody's friend. He was someone who had a feeding center where the homeless, the jobless, everybody would come and he would feed them ... This was someone who gave counseling to the youth when they're about to get married.
John Wooden was convicted in October of aggravated murder, kidnapping, and aggravated robbery, and will be sentenced Thursday.Stay Connected
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