The FBI has accused a plumber from Hoover, Alabama, of attempting to hire an assassin to kill his wife and her six children.
The FBI says 63-year-old Mohammad A.H. Mohammad (yes, his first and last names are the same) is on audio recording from Sunday, September 22, trying to set up the murders with someone he thought was a hitman, but who was actually an FBI agent.
On the recording, Mohammed can allegedly be heard saying, “God will reward me.”
He callously discussed his family as “six kids and the mom.” He told the alleged hitman that he could “pick and choose” with people he was “gunna take out” and he’d be paid for his services. Mohammed apparently believed that his family had turned against him, and he said he and his wife were headed to a divorce.
But Mohammed clearly seemed to want all of them dead, telling the phony assassin, “Start with one, take your time.”
According the FBI affidavit Mohammed made a $550 downpayment on the killings and agreed to pay $20,000 for his wife’s murder, and an additional $5,000 for the killing of each of her children (they are all adults).
Though details are not clear, there is apparently a witness, a third party, with some knowledge of the affair. This witness told Mohammed that he would “go to hell forever” if he murdered his family, which is what provoked Mohammed to say “No, God will reward me.”
The affidavit says that Mohammed had become increasingly violent toward his family for the past several years. The six adult children all belong to his wife (unnamed); none of them are children shared by the couple. Mohammed and his wife married in 2020, but it took only one year before the woman sought a protective order against her husband.
She accused him of threatening to murder her and her children, of hurting her physically, and of brandishing a gun at her. Authorities believe Mohammed stalked his wife and set her car on fire.
Law enforcement arrested Mohammed on September 24 and charged him with “use of interstate commerce facilities in the commission of murder for hire.”
