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   An Indiana man charged in the road rage shooting death of a   
   Muslim man allegedly yelled "go back to your country" and made   
   ethnic and religious insults against the victim before the   
   shooting, according to court documents.   
      
   Dustin Passarelli, 33, of Plainfield, remains jailed without   
   bond following his Friday initial hearing on a murder charge in   
   the killing of Zahra Ayoubi, CBS affiliate WTTV reported.   
      
   A preliminary autopsy showed Ayoubi, 32, was shot once from the   
   front in his shoulder and seven times in the back Saturday   
   outside an apartment complex where Passarelli had followed him   
   after the two crossed paths on Interstate 465 in Indianapolis.   
      
   Passarelli told investigators he was driving when another car   
   aggressively "flew up" from behind and he followed it to the   
   apartment complex's parking lot, where there was a verbal   
   altercation between the two men, a probable cause affidavit   
   states.   
      
   Passarelli, who is not Jewish, told officers Ayoubi made an anti-   
   Semitic remark to him and punched a window in his car twice,   
   cracking the glass. He said he was in fear and pulled a handgun   
   from his seat and shot through the car window.   
      
   But a friend of Ayoubi's told investigators he heard Passarelli   
   yell "go back to your ... country" at Ayoubi using an expletive,   
   and also make ethnic and religious insults before the shooting.   
      
   A message was left Friday seeking comment from Passarelli's   
   court-appointed attorney.   
      
   Ayoubi's sister, Zahra Ayoubi, said her brother's death should   
   be investigated as a hate crime. She also called on Indiana, one   
   of five states without a hate crime law, to pass its own hate   
   crime law.   
      
   "It was a hate crime," she said prior to Passarelli's Friday   
   court hearing.   
      
   Marion County Prosecutor Terry Curry noted Indiana's lack of a   
   hate crime law Friday in a statement where he said his office   
   "will vigorously prosecute to seek justice for Mr. Ayoubi, for   
   his family and loved ones, and for all members of the Hoosier   
   Muslim community who have been impacted by this tragedy."   
      
   "While the disturbing allegations underlying the charge in this   
   case remain to be proven at trial, we are obviously unable to   
   charge this alleged act as a hate crime," Curry said.   
      
   Grant Mendenhall, special agent in charge of the FBI in   
   Indianapolis, told The Indianapolis Star the FBI is monitoring   
   the investigation into Ayoubi's death.   
      
   The Indiana Senate passed a hate crimes bill Thursday, two days   
   after it was amended to remove a list of specifically protected   
   characteristics, including sexual orientation, gender identity   
   and race. That bill now heads to the Indiana House.   
      
   After the bill was stripped of those protected characteristics   
   and approved Tuesday, Republican Gov. Eric Holcomb, civil rights   
   activists and business interests criticized lawmakers' move.   
      
   Holcomb, who supported the original legislation among his   
   legislative priorities for the 2019 session, said the amended   
   bill "does not get Indiana off the list of states without a bias   
   crime law."   
      
   Arkansas, Georgia, South Carolina and Wyoming are the other   
   states without hate crime laws.   
      
   There is no such thing as a hate crime.   
      
   https://www.cbsnews.com/news/dustin-passarelli-indiana-man-   
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