An Alabama plumber has pleaded guilty to seven counts of murder for hire for trying to hire a hitman to kill his wife and six adult children last year.
Mohammad A.H. Mohammed, 64, thought he was hiring someone to “take care of” his family in September 2024, the US Attorney for the Northern District of Alabama’s Office said. But instead, he offered to pay an undercover agent to do the job.
As CrimeOnline previously reported, Mohammad and his wife were involved in lengthy divorce proceedings, and she and two of the children had protection orderes against him since 2021. The orders of protection came after domestic violence charges against Mohammad were dismissed. His wife, now 55, told police that her husband told her he would “come after her.”
“Mohammad has hurt me and my kids and used weapons against us,’’ she wrote. “Mohammad said he wanted to shoot my daughter between the eyes.”
“He always threatens me and my children with violence,” she said. “He has put his hands on my kids and sent them to the emergency room. He has put a gun and knife against my kids heads and throats. He has shot guns at us.”
A year after those incidents, Mohammad was arrested for stalking for putting GPS tracking devices on vehicles belonging to his wife and children. In 2023, police and firefighters responded to a vehicle arson on a car associated with a friend of Mohammad’s wife, and the next day, a pickup truck belonging to one of his sons was set on fire in the family driveway.
Nine months after that, suspicious fires burned another son’s SUV and three other vehicles.
In December 2023, charging documents say, someone called the wife on behalf of Mohammad asking for reconciliation. She refused, and 12 hours later, a daughter’s care was burned.
Mohammad was then arrested for violating a protective order and the bond on the stalking charge was revoked. But he was again released in February and ordered to wear an ankle monitor.
Finally, in August, a cooperating witness spoke with federal agents, telling them that Mohammad had told him of his family troubles and saying he felt his pride and dignity had been destroyed. He told the witness he was willing to “die for self dignity” and “die for pride.”
Mohammad showed the cooperating witness and later the undercover agent photographs of the burned out vehicles, providing the agent with photos of the family members he wanted killed.
“You pick and choose who you gunna take out, and get paid,’’ Mohammad told him, the complaint says. “Start with one. Take your time. Second. Third. Fourth. Five. I don’t give (expletive). Just, start with one. What’s going to be to charge, start with one?”
Mohammad paid the agent a $550 down payment and promised $20,000 to kill his wife and $5,000 each for the six children.
He is now awaiting sentencing and faces up to 10 years in prison for each count.
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[Featured image: Mohammad A.H. Mohammad/Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office]
