Albuquerque police officers responded shortly before midnight Friday to reports of shots fired in the area of ​​Truman St. and Grand Ave. and found the victim dead, according to the police department’s press release. The victim, a Muslim man believed to be in his 20s, was from South Asia, police said. His identity has not been positively confirmed, the statement added. The man’s death came a day after authorities determined there was a link between the murders of Muhammed Afzaal Hussain, 27, and Aftab Hussein, 41, both Muslims and Pakistanis, who were killed in southeast Albuquerque in the past two weeks. Detectives are working to determine whether the November killing of Mohammad Ahmadi, a Muslim from Afghanistan, was also related. Ahmadi was killed outside a business he ran with his brother, police said. The victims in the first three cases were all “ambushed without warning, shot and killed,” Kyle Hartsock, deputy commander of the police department’s Criminal Investigation Division, said earlier. “Our top priority is keeping the community safe, and we’re asking the Muslim community in particular, to be vigilant, to look out for each other. If you see something, say something,” the police chief said Saturday. “Evil shall not prevail.” There is a $15,000 reward for information leading to an arrest, authorities said. “Albuquerque is on edge right now, and I want to be clear that we, and our partners across law enforcement, are directing every possible resource to these cases,” Mayor Tim Keller said in a statement. “We will protect our community and bring the perpetrator of these crimes to justice.” In a press release Saturday, the Council on American-Islamic Relations announced it was increasing its reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of those responsible to $10,000. “Albuquerque’s Muslim lives are at risk. Whoever is responsible for this horrific, hateful shooting spree must be identified and stopped — now,” CAIR National Deputy Director Edward Ahmed Mitchell said in a statement. “We thank local, state and federal law enforcement for their continued work on this crisis and call on the Biden administration to ensure that authorities have all the resources needed to protect Albuquerque’s Muslim community and stop those responsible for these horrific crimes before it claims more innocent lives,” Mitchell added in the statement.