http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/dec/08/pittsburgh-shooting-hate-crime-muslim-americans

The driver told the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette that the shooter asked about his country of origin, his faith and the Islamic State militant group, and advocates began asking that the incident be investigated by local and national law enforcement as an anti-Islamic hate crime. Pittsburgh police have made an arrest; their investigation is ongoing.

The incident has had a chilling effect among the region’s Islamic community, amid a national wave of vandalism, harassment and violence targeting Muslims across America. On Monday, a staff member from a North Philadelphia mosque found a severed pig’s head outside the door. In other incidents since the 13 November Paris attacks, pages of a Qur’an were smeared with excrement. A Muslim woman was spit on. A Mosque was the target of a molotov cocktail.

The manager told FOX 17 the gunman called the clerk a terrorist, ISIS, and said things like, "I used to kill people like you in Iraq with no problem."

As of Monday afternoon, the Grand Rapids Police Department is investigating the armed robbery but Sgt. Terry Dixon said they "are not prepared to call this a hate crime."

The store manager first shared harrowing surveillance video with FOX 17 on Monday morning showing the incident . It began at 11:57 p.m. Saturday, when the video shows a masked gunman armed with a rifle barging through the back door as Tony made the store's liquor order.

The manager said Tony immediately put his hands up, then emptied the cash register, and gave the suspect the money.

But then the suspect forced Tony to the backroom, away from surveillance cameras. The manager told FOX 17 the robber put his gun into the clerk's mouth and forced him onto his knees while saying ethnic slurs and calling Tony a "terrorist."

Then Tony fought back, moving his head to the side just before the shot fired through his cheek. The manager said Tony remembered falling back, the gunman firing two more shots, and then running out the door.