Double Murder – Killed – Mobeen Hakeem (Evanston, IL) | Shot in the USA: Gun Violence After Newtown

Left: Azim Hakeem; Right: Mobeen Hakeem

Mobeen Hakeem, 34, and Azim Hakeem, 38, were discovered around 8:30 p.m. Tuesday in the Evanston Pipe and Tobacco shop in the 900 block of Davis Street in the north suburb, according to relatives and authorities.

The mother of the two men drove to the store to check on them shortly after 8 p.m. where she found the “open” sign still illuminated and the doors padlocked. The Sun-Times reports after the woman called authorities who later snapped the lock to enter the store, and found the men in the basement with “at least” one gunshot wound each.

December 20, 2013 (EVANSTON, Ill.) — Police in Evanston say a suspected bank robber who was shot and killed on Monday was responsible for the murder of two brothers back in July.

Police say a search conducted in a basement storage locker in Ross’s Evanston condominium turned up documents belonging to Azim Hakeem, 38, and his brother, Mobeen Hakeem, 34,. The brothers were were shot to death July 30 at their store, Evanston Pipe and Tobacco. Their bodies were found in the basement.

It was a crime that caused unease in the Evanston community and stymied police who assigned two officers full time to try to solve it. The murders of brothers Mobeen and Aziz Hakeem inside the tobacco shop they ran has gone unsolved since July.

But police got a break in the case after following up on bank robbery suspect 29-year-old Kevin Ross, who was shot by officers after a confrontation Monday. They searched a storage locker in his apartment.

“Police searched that storage locker and located several pieces that linked him to the scene of the double murder, and also specifically, linked him to the murder itself,” said Cmdr. Jay Parrott, Evanston Police Dept.

Among the items they found in the storage locker were the victim’s I.D.s, a matching .22-caliber shell casing consistent with the weapon used to shoot the brothers multiple times, and a receipt from cigar shop from several months earlier, indicating he had been in the store previously.

Hakeem’s family however believes police take pinning the crime on the wrong suspect. They have been anxiously hoping for an arrest in the case, but they doubt Ross was the killer.

“We’re just really frustrated because there’s this consistent pattern of misinformation, lack of transparency and it just raises more and more doubts,” said Farheen Hakeem, victim’s sister.

Kevin Ross was shot and killed on Monday, after allegedly robbing a Chase Bank branch in the 900 block of Grove Street. When police approached him after the robbery, and he refused to drop his weapon, officers shot and killed Ross.

http://abclocal.go.com/story?section=news/local&id=9367626

http://www.chicagotribune.com/suburbs/evanston/chi-officials-two-men-dead-in-evanston-building-20130731-story.html

http://patch.com/illinois/evanston/suspect-shot-in-evanston-linked-to-five-bank-robberies