Teens to be charged in NY mugging death

Rabie Muhammed and Shazam Khan in happier times. (New York Post photo)

Three teenagers are expected to be charged in the purse snatching murder of Rabia Mohammed, in Queens, New York, the New York Times has reported.

According to the report, on Sunday the police announced that Tiyquon Hodges, 16, Corey Brown, 17, and Ian Green, 17, will be charged with the second-degree murder of Mohammed, who had Guyanese roots. Meris Campbell, a spokeswoman for Richard A. Brown, the Queens District Attorney, was quoted as saying that the youths were involved in at least one other armed robbery but she was unable to immediately provide details.

The report said that the three were arrested last Thursday after the police stopped a vehicle they were riding in. Investigators initially concentrated on the possible involvement of the suspects in a separate armed