Hamad was reported missing when he did not return home from a trip to the pharmacy Monday, according to his family which included his wife and two children.
Brittany Mooney noticed the body floating in the lake while walking her dog at Festival Beach about 2:25 p.m. Wednesday.
"We just kept walking back and forth, and it started getting closer to the shore, and so we went over there and saw that it was a body," Mooney said. "And he's got tape wrapped around his whole, like duct tape, around his whole face."
Hamad had spent 10 years with the Austin Independent School District along with teaching at Austin Community College. He was a graduate of UT and had been pursuing a graduate degree. Hamad was also a peace activist.
A mother of one of his students, Ana Fulton, said he was a peaceful activist and a nice man.
"He stood up for what he believed in," Ana Fulton said. "For him, to have sticker on his car, saying expressing himself about the freedom of Palestine and the peaceful activism he was doing, I admire him for that."
Police have only called the death suspicious. His family had reported that Hamad had suicidal thoughts and the binding of his hands and legs were consistent with him having done it according to the police report.
However, after reading the police report it still sounds fishy. Who would bound their entire head along with their hands and legs? It also does not help that he was a peace activist. I pray that this man was not a victim of foul play and that he is now in true peace...but it's all a tad too odd.
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