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A TEENAGE boy was shot dead in front of his family in Syria after being accused of blasphemy against the Prophet Muhammad. Coffee seller Muhammad al-Qatta, 15, was abducted by rebels and tortured before being gunned down in a street. His crime was to say he wouldn't give a customer a free drink "even if Muhammad came back to earth". Monitoring group the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights recorded the shocking details of the youngster's death. The London based organisation - which has observers in Aleppo - said Muhammad was killed in front of a crowd which included his parents. A graphic photograph of his mutilated face was posted on the group's Facebook page - which also contained a tearful video from Muhammad's family. His fanatical killers shot him in the head and neck after telling onlookers that anyone else found guilty of blasphemy would suffer the same fate. However reports say that the phrase Muhammad spoke - or at least one similar - is commonly used in Syrian dialect. However, because it is possible the rebel group were made up of non-Syrian natives and spoke a different dialect of Arabic, they took grave offence. In a video posted on YouTube, his mother said she had seen Muhammad being killed from her balcony. "His blood ran in front of me," she said.