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Suspect Is Arrested In Grisly Killing of Tech CEO Fahim Saleh (nytimes.com) 56

Posted by BeauHD from the gruesome-murders dept.
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The New York Times: The former personal assistant of a young tech entrepreneur found decapitated and dismembered in his Manhattan apartment was arrested early on Friday and was expected to be charged in the killing, according to three officials briefed on the matter. The entrepreneur, Fahim Saleh, 33, was discovered dead on Tuesday afternoon by his sister inside his $2.25 million condo in a luxury building on the Lower East Side, the police said. She had gone to check in on him after not hearing from him for about a day.

Mr. Saleh's head and limbs had been removed, and parts of his body had been placed in large plastic bags designed for construction debris. An electric saw was still plugged in nearby. The former assistant, Tyrese Devon Haspil, 21, had worked for Mr. Saleh since he was 16. Mr. Haspil was expected to be charged in a criminal complaint with second-degree murder and other crimes. Detectives believe that the motive for the killing stemmed from Mr. Saleh having discovered that Mr. Haspil had stolen roughly $90,000 from him, two of the officials said. Mr. Saleh fired Mr. Haspil, but did not report the theft and even offered to set up what amounted to a repayment plan so he could return the money, the officials said. One of the officials said Mr. Saleh had paid Mr. Haspil so well that he had been able to pay off the debts of several family members. "After the murder, the killer used a credit card to pay for a car to a Home Depot, on West 23rd Street in Manhattan, and to buy cleaning supplies, the fourth official said. He returned to Mr. Saleh's apartment the next day to dismember the body and clean up the crime scene," the report adds.

"On the day of the murder, detectives believe that the killer -- dressed in a black three-piece suit, wearing a black mask and latex gloves, and carrying a duffel bag -- followed Mr. Saleh off an elevator that opened up in his apartment, law enforcement officials said. As the two men left the elevator, the killer used a Taser to immobilize Mr. Saleh and then stabbed him to death."
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  • fuckin' baller (Score:1, Funny)

    by Anonymous Coward

    Sister got a free set of power tools. Hopefully it was the two-battery Makita and not Ryobi crap.

    More generally, if one of your employees is a thief, you report him to the police immediately. It never ends well if you don't.

    • Re: (Score:1, Offtopic)

      by rlwinm ( 6158720 )
      Makita? Seriously. Milwaukee for the win! Check out AvE's BOLTR videos - they really do have awesome batteries.

      • Re: (Score:3)

        by cusco ( 717999 )

        Don't care for the balance of the Milwaukee's battery pack, although their corded Sawzall is pretty much the best there is.

      • Re: (Score:3)

        by _merlin ( 160982 )
        Milwaukee is a subsidiary of Techtronic [wikipedia.org], the same Chinese company that owns AEG, Ryobi, Hoover, Dirt Devil and Vax. They aren't American, and they are Ryobi.

    • nah, you know the boys down in Evidence will steal that shit

    • Re: (Score:1)

      by Anonymous Coward

      More generally, if one of your employees is a thief, you report him to the police immediately. It never ends well if you don't.

      I have to concur. Even if you don't press charges, simply getting him in to a law enforcement database would make it known to him that he would be a suspect and unlikely to get away with it. Keeping it under the table probably made him think he could do what he did and not get caught.

      Also, where there's one crime their are often others. Who knows what else this guy was into?

    • Re: (Score:3)

      by cusco ( 717999 )

      Typical modern city kid. Those of us who grew up hunting and butchering our own animals know that all he needed was the knife. It's not that hard to figure out where the joints and tendons are, although admittedly the neck would have been a bit of a pain to work through.

      He probably wasn't prepared for a rich guy's house, where any cleaning materials are brought in and out by the maid every Tuesday, so had to go out and buy some.

    • if one of your employees is a thief, you report him to the police immediately. It never ends well if you don't.

      Never?

  • On the day of the murder, detectives believe that the killer -- dressed in a black three-piece suit, wearing a black mask and latex gloves,

    Before the outbreak, his accessorizing might have attracted some suspicion. Not this year.

    • I was thinking the same thing.

      Under normal circumstances one may have difficulty doing business at a bank with any sort of face coverings for obvious reasons.

      I may have to try cashing a check with a Chewbacca mask on claiming it's the only mask I could find and report on results... :)

  • Is there more to this? (Score:2, Insightful)

    by Jodka ( 520060 )

    Something about this says "gay love affair gone wrong". With the victim, no wife or girlfriend in the picture. He has a male "personal assistant." Murder is way more vengeful than what you'd expect if the issue was being fired for steeling.

       

    • Add to that the article says the guy was paid very well while he was the PA. Enough so to pay off family debts.

    • Murder is way more vengeful than what you'd expect if the issue was being fired for steeling.

      Give me a break. Have you not paid attention to how many mass killings have taken place at businesses in the US over the past several years, where the perpetrator had been recently fired for being lazy / incompetent / dishonest?

      Also, the word you were looking for is "stealing".

      • I think he means the degree of mutilation; mass killings are relatively less involved in that sense. It takes less to shoot someone from a distance than it does to stab someone repeatedly and them dismember him with an electric saw. TFA doesn't seem to state how many stabs, but repeated stabbing is typically an indication of extreme hatred or revenge, e.g. from romantic betrayal. In short, it's believable that someone might commit murder for being fired, but the degree of passion indicated in the slaying hi

      • Give me a break. Have you not paid attention to how many mass killings have taken place at businesses in the US over the past several years, where the perpetrator had been recently fired for being lazy / incompetent / dishonest?

        Indeed. They rarely followed employees home and then proceeded to dismember them.

        Mass killings are basically the polar opposite of this. It takes a very VERY different mind to slice up a cadaver in a carefully planned murder than it does to grab a gun and go on a mental spree shooting anything that moves.

      • Maybe he had to steel himself before killing the guy for finding out he was stealing...

    • had worked for Mr. Saleh since he was 16 ... 2nd degree murder

      There is definitely more to this story. This would have normally been 1st degree murder on initial charge. The prosecution knows something they haven't disclosed beyond the theft and murder that caused them to back off of murder 1.

      • Re: (Score:1)

        by vinn01 ( 178295 )

        "worked for Mr. Saleh since he was 16 ... There is definitely more to this story."

        I don't think it's normal for a tech business person to hire a 16 year-old to be his personal assistant.

        In case you forgot who much you knew when you were 16, I'll tell you...not much. The average 16 year-old has no business experience, no business skills, and not much office tech skills, unless maybe they are a 16 year-old graduate of MIT.

        I know 16 year-olds that are working at an ice-cream parlor. That work is the limit

        • I was doing computer repair and networking at 16 as a full time job / internship. Many kids are ready for challenge and responsibility at a young age. And I think most people will rise and grow to an opportunity, like a plant stretching to reach light. I also think a personal assistant job would be a good one for a kid, as they'd learn a lot of soft and practical skills. And I don't think you should look down upon those that work in food service. That's hard work and can be mentally taxing. It's not the sam
      • It might be as simple as not being able to demonstrate premeditation, which is required for murder 1
    • Comment removed based on user account deletion

    • Re: (Score:2, Insightful)

      by Anonymous Coward

      The likely story? Fahim was a soft-hearted bloke (SJW?) who wanted to help out a young ghetto kid named Tyrese. Tyrese was on the hook (because he had a job) to pay off his dad's bar tabs and his siblings drug debts. After telling his relatives what a pushover his boss was they urged him to take some money owed to them from "The Man", as he was so rich he'd never notice. Upon discovering the theft, the bleeding heart Fahim said he could pay it back and wouldn't press charges, but he'd reluctantly have to fi

  • The PA even cleaned up after the contract was void.

  • I thought the original coverage was someone writting about the movie and was actually a bit disturbed from the descriotion of what happened. Glad they caught the guy so fast.

  • the killer used a Taser to immobilize Mr. Saleh and then stabbed him to death.

    A big fan of Bioshock I see.

    • JC! Welcome to the coalition! The GEP gun takedown is always the most silent way to eliminate Saleh.

  • After not visiting slashdot for the past ten years, I decide to visit it once again, and find this on the front page.
    Ah well, I'll check back in another ten years, hopefully things will have improved by then!

  • 1) Don't steal from the person you kill.
    2) Don't buy the cleaning materials immediately before or after the murder.
    3) Use cash and don't bring your phone.
    4) Don't be in a strained relationship with the person you kill.
    5) If you need to kill people without repercussions, join the police.

  • If you owed a large some of money to someone because you stole it, why murder them is such a grisly fashion? I imagine dismemberment takes a lot of work, and the whole thing sounds like it was planned (mostly, obviously he didn't consider it would be traced back to him!). That suggests he really disliked the guy, to put it mildly. Unless he reasoned a murder in that way would fool the authorities, which it obviously didn't.

  • Most grizzly Covid-19 death I've read about up to now...
  • Spare his life. He's black, he matters.

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