Man says he was on a ‘jihad’ against US policy in the Middle East

  • Man pleaded guilty on Tuesday to killing a college student and three men in 2014
  • He’s currently serving a 35-year term for a West Orange robbery
  • Brown earlier pleaded guilty to shooting 19-year-old Brendan Tevlin 
  • He said he killed the other three men because ‘all these lives are taken every single day by America, by this government. So a life for a life’

Ali Muhammad Brown pleaded guilty on Tuesday to killing a college student in New Jersey and admitted he fatally shot three men

A man who said he was on a jihad to avenge U.S. policy in the Middle East pleaded guilty on Tuesday to killing a college student in New Jersey and admitted he fatally shot three men in the Seattle area in spring 2014.  

The Asbury Park Press reports that Ali Muhammad Brown entered a guilty plea Friday to first-degree robbery and a weapons charge in the June 2014 robbery in Point Pleasant Beach.

Brown earlier pleaded guilty to shooting 19-year-old Brendan Tevlin as the victim sat at a traffic light in West Orange, a few miles from Newark.

He’s currently serving a 35-year term for a West Orange robbery and has yet to plead in the Washington state cases.

He said he killed the men because ‘all these lives are taken every single day by America, by this government. So a life for a life.’ 

Brown earlier pleaded guilty to shooting 19-year-old Brendan Tevlin (pictured) as the victim sat at a traffic light in West Orange, a few miles from Newark

Brown earlier pleaded guilty to shooting 19-year-old Brendan Tevlin (pictured) as the victim sat at a traffic light in West Orange, a few miles from Newark

According to prosecutors Brown views US military intervention in the Islamic world as that ‘evil’ against which he must act. 

The New Jersey slaying victim, Brendan Tevlin was shot at a West Orange traffic light on June 25, 2014. The 19-year-old University of Richmond student was driving to his home to Livingston. 

According to prosecutors Brown views US military intervention in the Islamic world as that 'evil' against which he must act

According to prosecutors Brown views US military intervention in the Islamic world as that ‘evil’ against which he must act

At the time authorities in Seattle said that Brown described himself to detectives as a strict Muslim who was angry with the U.S. government's role in Iraq, Iran and Afghanistan because of the death of innocent civilians and children

At the time authorities in Seattle said that Brown described himself to detectives as a strict Muslim who was angry with the U.S. government’s role in Iraq, Iran and Afghanistan because of the death of innocent civilians and children

At the time authorities in Seattle said that Brown described himself to detectives as a strict Muslim who was angry with the U.S. government’s role in Iraq, Iran and Afghanistan because of the death of innocent civilians and children. 

Brown told investigators he carried out the killings in retaliation for U.S. military action in the Middle East, and described himself as a strict Muslim.

In his journal, Brown said he was interested in receiving jihadist training.

In his journal, Brown said he was interested in receiving jihadist training

In his journal, Brown said he was interested in receiving jihadist training

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