TUCSON, AZ - The “Queers for Palestine" crowd may want to pay attention to the following.
Last Monday, a pro-Palestinian photographer and his friend were gunned down by a Muslim man as they were leaving an Arizona gay bar, police said, according to The New York Post. The suspect then shot himself in what police are calling a hate crime.
The suspect, Ousman Ceesay, opened fire at about 12:30 a.m. Monday, targeting the two men, whom he did not know, the Tucson Police Department said. Police said the two men, Cameron Davis Capara, 33, and Vincent Anthony Siqueiros, 42, were in the parking lot of the gay bar, Venture-N, when they were confronted by Ceesay and shot.
Ceesay, 44, then shot himself with a 9mm handgun, The Post reported.
Police said he was carrying a note with a list of gay-friendly businesses in the area. However, he never tried to enter the bar adjacent to where the shooting took place.
Detectives executing a search warrant at the suspect’s home found a second note that “indicated he acted alone and that this shooting was a targeted attack motivated by hate toward the LGBTQIA+ community,” the department said.
Police said they had no prior contacts with Ceesay, who was originally from The Gambia in West Africa. He had only moved to the Tucson area from Oklahoma City in December, the Arizona Daily Star reported, citing sources.
The outlet reported Ceesay and his wife were in financial trouble after they accumulated over $76,000 in debt, which forced them to declare Chapter 7 bankruptcy in 2018. Ceesay previously worked as an Uber driver and was a practicing Muslim, according to his cousin, who noted he prayed toward Mecca five times per day.
AZPM reported that Capara was a photographer who focused on documenting the gay lifestyle, campus rallies, rallies over Gaza (ironically), and protests against ICE.
“He cared deeply about people in Tucson or those thousands of miles away. People who were marginalized, overlooked, or misunderstood,” said his father, Jeff Capara.
“One of the things I admired most about him was that he didn’t judge people. He believed that everyone had their own story, their own struggles, and their own reasons for being who they were.
“He wanted people to have the freedom to simply be themselves without being judged for it. And in the same way, he didn’t want to be judged himself. He wanted to be accepted for who he was.”
Meanwhile, Siqueiros’ sister, Kate Marquez, said her brother made an “eerie” statement in their last phone call a week before his death.
“At one point, Vincent wondered aloud, ‘If something happened to me, who would actually be there?’ That was six days ago,” she said at a memorial for the two.
Since the Islamist attack on Israel two years ago, protesters who support Islamo-fascists in the Middle East, including ISIS, have protested against Israel and taken the side of so-called “Palestinians.” Some of those belong to a group identified as “Queers for Palestine.” Ironically, as has been widely reported, ISIS (the Islamic State) has a practice of throwing gay men off buildings and, if they happen to survive, stoning them to death, NBC News previously reported. CBS News also reported that ISIS had a “homicidal hatred of gays.”
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