A safiyar ranar 25 ga Satumba, 2016, wani dan bindiga ya harbe Hattar har lahira a kusa da Fadar Shari'a a Amman, babban birnin kasar, inda yake kan hanyarsa ta halartar sauraron karar kotu. An kama dan bindigar a wurin. Wani jami'in tsaro ya gano wanda ake zargi a matsayin Riad Ismaeel Abdullah mai shekaru 49, mazaunin gabashin Amman. Abdullah mai wa'azi ne a masallaci a Amman kuma mai tsattsauran ra'ayi. An yanke masa hukuncin kisa a watan Nuwamba kuma an kashe shi a safiyar ranar 4 ga Maris, 2017, tare da wasu masu aikata laifuka 14 da ake zargi da ta'addanci da fyade na kananan yara. Wasu 'yan tsatstsauran ra'ayin Musulmin Jordan sun dauki ra'ayin Hattar na raba zane-zane a matsayin abin zargi. Babban jami'in addini na Jordan ya soki Hattar saboda abin da suka dauka a matsayin "ta'addanci ga mahallin, addinin Islama da alamomin addini".
25 ga watan Satumba 2016