Point Pleasant Beach Carjacker's Jihad Confession In Teen's Murder Not Receiving Enough Attention, Radio Host Says

A radio host says the murder of a Livingston teenager whose shooter has confessed to killing him and three other as an act of revenge for U.S. actions in the Middle East has not received enough attention as an act of domestic terrorism.

Brendan Tevlin, 19, was shot to death at a West Orange intersection on June 25. Ali Muhammad Brown, 29, of Seattle, who also is charged in an attempted carjacking in Point Pleasant Beach on June 29, was arrested in Seattle in mid-July in connection with three shootings in Washington state.

Tevlin’s family started a Facebook page to honor the teen’s memory and also to draw more attention to the domestic terrorism angle. The family and its supporters also have been using the hashtag #BrendanTevlin to bring attention to it.

In August, Brown said he murdered Tevlin, a Seton Hall Prep grad from Livingston, along with three other men in retribution for lives lost in the military conflicts in the Middle East, according to a confession from Brown in court documents, NJ.com reported.

Last Wednesday, the day before the 13th anniversary of the 9/11 terror attacks, Todd Pettengill, host of WPLJ’s “The Todd Show,” discussed Tevlin’s murder, criticizing media outlets for not giving the case and the domestic terrorism angle more attention, according to NJ.com.

Brown reportedly told authorities he considered it his mission to murder Tevlin and the others as an act of “vengeance” for innocent lives lost in Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria and Iran.

“All these lives are taken every single day by America, by this government. So a life for a life,” Brown told detectives, according to the documents.

Brown described the murder as a “just kill” – carried out against an adult male who was not in the company of any women, children or elderly persons, court papers said.

“It was in fact an act of jihad, perpetrated by a fellow American who sympathized more with those who want to annihilate us than with his own country and its people,” Pettengill said on the radio, NJ.com reported.

Brown, who is a convicted sex offender, was linked to the June 29 attempted carjacking in Point Pleasant Beach by a palm print he left on the stick shift of the manual transmission car he tried to steal, and by his fingerprints on the victim’s wallet, which was among items in a bag Brown left in the bathroom at a nearby convenience store, authorities told NJ.com.