FRESNO, Calif. (AP) — The Latest on a fatal shooting near a Catholic Charities facility in downtown Fresno, California (all times local): 
 
 1:35 p.m. 
 
 The imam of the Islamic Cultural Center of Fresno says the suspect in a shooting that killed three people was not a member of his center. 
 
 Sayed Ali Ghazvini said Tuesday that he and other faith leaders are trying to identify Kori Ali Muhammad. 
 
 Authorities say Muhammad yelled "God is great" in Arabic while being taken into custody. Fresno Police Chief Jerry Dyer says he also told authorities he hates white people. All three victims were white. 
 
 Ghazvini offered prayers to the victims and their families. He said that members are shocked. 
 
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 1:20 p.m. 
 
 Fresno Police Chief Jerry Dyer says the suspect in a shooting that killed three people in downtown Fresno told police he hates white people and shouted "God is great" in Arabic before the killings. 
 
 All three victims in Tuesday's killings were white. The police chief says they were shot minutes apart in close proximity in areas around downtown. 
 
 Thirty-nine-year-old Kori Ali Muhammad was arrested shortly afterward. He was already wanted for a separate killing from last week, in which a Motel 6 security guard in Fresno was gunned down. 
 
 Dyer says police have called the FBI to assist in the investigation. He says the suspect made other statements to police but did not disclose what they were. 
 
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 12:50 p.m. 
 
 Fresno Police Chief Jerry Dyer says three people have been killed in a shooting in the downtown central California city. 
 
 He says a suspect is in custody. The shooting happened Tuesday morning near a Catholic Charities building. 
 
 Ashlee Wolf of Catholic Charities told the Fresno Bee newspaper (http://bit.ly/2oK6Vzc) that the shooting happened at a bus stop near the charity. 
 
 Wolf says the charity doesn't believe the shooter was tied to Catholic Charities. 
 
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 12:30 p.m. 
 
 Emergency officials say a shooting has killed one person and injured two others in downtown Fresno. 
 
 Dan Lynch of Fresno County Emergency Medical Services says the two wounded by gunfire have been transported to hospitals. 
 
 Fresno city spokesman Mark Standriff says county offices are on lockdown, and people have been urged to shelter in place. Few other details were immediately known. 
 
 Ashlee Wolf of Catholic Charities told the Fresno Bee newspaper (http://bit.ly/2oK6Vzc ) the shooting happened at a bus stop near the charity. 
 
 Wolf says the charity doesn't believe the shooter was tied to Catholic Charities. She says the charity is working with police to provide information. ||||| PORTLAND, Ore. -- Authorities on Saturday identified a 35-year-old Portland man as the suspect in the fatal stabbing of two people on a Northeast Portland light-rail train who yelled racial slurs at two young women, one of whom was wearing a hijab. 
 
 Jeremy Joseph Christian was being held Saturday in the Multnomah County Jail on suspicion of aggravated murder, attempted murder, intimidation and being a felon in possession of a weapon. He was arrested a short time after the attack on Friday. 
 
 He will make a first court appearance Tuesday, and it wasn't immediately clear if he had an attorney. A phone at his home in Portland rang unanswered early Saturday. 
 
 Police on Saturday identified the victims as 53-year-old Ricky John Best of Happy Valley, Oregon, and 23-year-old Taliesin Myrddin Namkai Meche of Portland. Best died at the scene, and Meche died at a hospital, police said. 
 
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 Micah David-Cole Fletcher, 21, of Portland was also stabbed in the attack and is in serious condition at a Portland hospital, police said. His injuries are not believed to be life-threatening, police said. 
 
 Witnesses told CBS affiliate KOIN-TV the suspect was yelling about hating Muslims for several minutes before people confronted him and the encounter turned violent. 
 
 Police say that before the stabbing the assailant on the train was ranting on many topics, using "hate speech or biased language." 
 
 Friday was the beginning of Ramadan, the holiest time of the year for Muslims, and the attack prompted soul-searching in Portland, a city that prides itself on its tolerance and liberal views. A memorial of flowers and signs quickly grew at the scene by a transit station. 
 
 "There is too much hatred in our world right now, and far too much violence. Too much of it has arrived here in Portland," Mayor Ted Wheeler said in Facebook post. 
 
 Wheeler was on the inaugural direct flight from the Oregon city to London when the attack occurred. He said he boarded the first flight back and was due to arrive Saturday afternoon. 
 
 Dyjuana Hudson, a mother of one of the girls, told The Oregonian that the man began a racial tirade as soon as he spotted the girls. Her daughter is African-American and was with a friend who was wearing a hijab, she said. 
 
 "He was saying that Muslims should die," Hudson said. "That they've been killing Christians for years." 
 
 The attack happened on a Metropolitan Area Express train as it headed east. A train remained stopped on the tracks at a transit center which was closed while police investigated. 
 
 Autopsies on the victims were being done Saturday. Police say the victims were trying to stop Christian from confronting the girls. 
 
 "In the midst of his ranting and raving, some people approached him and appeared to try to intervene with his behavior and some of the people that he was yelling at," police Sgt. Pete Simpson told The Oregonian. "They were attacked viciously." 
 
 Police Sgt. Pete Simpson told CBS News that Christian attended a free speech march in April with a baseball bat to confront protesters but the bat was quickly confiscated by officers. 
 
 The Portland Mercury, one of the city's alternative weeklies, posted an article with video clips of a man wearing a metal chain around his neck and draped in an American flag. "He ranted how he was a nihilist. He'd soon yelled racial slurs ... and gave the Nazi salute throughout the day," the Portland Mercury says. 
 
 Neighbors who live next to Christian's parents' house -- which was also his last listed address in court records -- said the family was quiet and they often saw Christian's two adult brothers but never him. 
 
 One neighbor, Kenny Jenkins, said he occasionally saw Christian riding his bike around the neighborhood. 
 
 The neighborhood where the Christians live is on the northern outskirts of Portland, an area that has been rapidly gentrifying in recent years because it remains one of the last affordable sections of the city. The homes immediately surrounding the Christian residence now hold biracial families moving from out-of-state and same-sex couples, Jenkins said. 
 
 Despite the changing neighborhood, the Christians have lived in their modest, two-story off-white house for decades, next-door neighbor Ron Killgore said. 
 
 "We would have a brief conversations. Every time they were out gardening, we would chat," Killgore said. "Just a few days ago I saw them out, doing something in the flower bed out front." 
 
 Portland Police Chief Mike Marshman told KOIN-TV that Friday's attacks were tough to comprehend. "Even though I've been doing police work for a long, long time now, the shock of these senseless crimes still stunned me," he said. "Just horrific." 
 
 But Christian has had several encounters with the law, and spent time in prison for robbery and kidnapping charges years ago, according to court records and a defense attorney. 
 
 In 2002, Christian, then 20, was arrested and charged with first-degree robbery and second-degree kidnapping after he rode to a convenience store on his bike and held up employees there with a gun, according to court records and his court-appointed defense attorney at the time, Matthew Kaplan. 
 
 When police caught up with him, Christian aimed the gun at himself in a suicide attempt before he was shot and injured by police, Kaplan said. 
 
 Christian was sentenced to more than seven years in prison after striking a plea deal that eliminated coercion and weapons charges. 
 
 Kaplan said he remembers the case vividly because Christian was so young, so earnest and had never been in trouble before. At the time, the attorney suspected the onset of mental illness to explain his actions and worried about how he would deal with a long prison sentence. 
 
 "It was so random, the event in his life. It made no sense that he did this at his age. He had no background like this, no history of violence and then he goes and gets a gun and robs a store," Kaplan told The Associated Press in a phone interview. 
 
 Christian had another brush with the law in 2010, when he was arrested on charges of being a felon in possession of a firearm and theft. Those charges were dismissed, according to court records, which do not explain why.
– The man accused of murdering four white men in Fresno—three of them in a Tuesday morning shooting spree—repeatedly referred to "white devils" in online postings. Police believe 39-year-old Kori Ali Muhammad's killing spree was a hate crime, not an act of terrorism. The suspect's father, Vincent Taylor, tells the Los Angeles Times that his son believed black people and white people were at war and "a battle was about to take place." Police say Muhammed, who surrendered peacefully after shooting the three men, has told them he decided to kill "as many people as he could" after he was identified as a suspect in the fatal shooting of a Motel 6 security guard last week, the Fresno Bee reports. Taylor says he's glad his son—who changed his name from Kori Taylor—was arrested and the bloodshed is at an end. Muhammad's other online postings include a rap album with the lyrics: "Hollow points make a white devil body spin." Police say his victims included Pacific Gas & Electric Co. employee Zackary Randalls, the 34-year-old father of two young children. The two other men killed Tuesday are believed to be clients of Catholic Charities, an organization that helps the poor and the homeless, the Bee reports. Police say Muhammad shouted "Allahu akbar" as he was arrested. Leaders from several Fresno Muslim centers joined Christian and Jewish leaders outside City Hall Tuesday to condemn the killings.