Elias Abuelazam
According to the Atlanta Journal Constitution, the man nabbed at the Michigan Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport, suspected serial killer Elias Abuelazam was caught after being paged by the authorities at the airport. According to the AJC, Elias Abuelazam is wanted in several states, a suspect in multiple stabbing attacks. Abuelazam had an expired Israeli passport and a ticket to Tel Aviv. Abuelazam’s family resides in Ramieh, an Arab-Israeli town located 20 miles from Tel Aviv. AJC posted a photo of Abuelazam and also noted the suspected serial killer had his named “spelled four different ways in public documents” including the name Elias Abu Elazam on an expired 1997 Michigan driver’s license.
A photo of Abluelazam published by AJC of Elias Abuelazam, supplied by the Arlington Virginia Police Department with the caption, Elias Abu Elazam, in our opinion, looks an awful lot like the Facebook photo pasted on the current Facebook page of “Elias Abu Elazam”.
Elias Abu Elazam’s Facebook page.
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In Ramla, a alloyed Israeli Jewish-Arab alive chic boondocks amid Jerusalem and Tel Aviv, the shabby, two-story abode breadth the suspect's mother and sister alive was aphotic backward Thursday. Neighbors, who banned to accord their names, said the ancestors is Christian but told reporters little else.
In Michigan, Genesee County Prosecutor David Leyton said authorities don't apperceive the motive for the stabbings, and that admitting the actuality that best victims were atramentous there is no affirmation chase played a role.
Killed were David Motley, 31, Emmanuel A. Muhammad, 59, Darwin Marshall, 43, and Arnold R. Minor, 49, all of Flint, and Frank Kellybrew, 60, of Flint Township. All died afore Aug. 4, back Michigan authorities assured the attacks were the assignment of one consecutive killer.
A tip backward Tuesday – one of added than 500 accustomed in the stabbings – led badge to a bazaar abreast Flint breadth Abuelazam worked. Leyton said board talked to employees, and a abundance video showed that he akin the description of the man basic by authorities.
Antwione Marshall, the victim of the July 27 cutting in which Abuelazam has been charged, told The Associated Press that he articular Abuelazam as his aggressor back the FBI visited him at 3 a.m. to appearance him a photograph of the suspect.
Marshall, 26, of Flint, said he was activity into his accommodation architecture back the aggressor approached and asked for advice acclimation his car. He was stabbed active back he opened the hood, and now has a continued blister from his chest to his pelvic area.
Marshall said he wants to "retaliate" but "I'll let God handle it. Every time I attending at my scar, I get angry."
Abuelazam was active in Flint, breadth his uncle endemic two adjoining homes. Leyton said badge searched them and removed affirmation but he beneath to call it.
The doubtable larboard his agent in Michigan and flew Wednesday to Louisville, Ky., and again to Atlanta, the aftermost stop afore the planned all-embracing flight. Leyton said Abuelazam's uncle bought him the even ticket, which amount about $3,000, and is now allied with police.
A few dozen bodies who heard about the arrest aggregate alfresco Abuelazam's above workplace, Kingwater Bazaar in Mount Morris Township. One yelled that the buyer should accept been suspicious. Badge austere the parking lot.
Store administrator Abdulla Farrah said Abuelazam formed there for about a ages afore abrogation Aug. 1. He said he seemed like a "very polite, nice guy" who "didn't appearance any affectionate of racism," but he additionally said, "I achievement if he's the one that did this I achievement they adhere him, I achievement he gets the afterlife penalty." Michigan does not accept basic punishment.
Peters, who is black, said bodies about the abundance hadn't doubtable the aggressor was amid them.
"We consistently anticipation somebody was aggravating to perpetrate a abhorrence abomination adjoin us," he said. "People were calling me from out of town, cogent me to be careful."
A adjudicator in Flint active a accreditation Thursday charging Abuelazam with advance with absorbed to annihilation in affiliation with the cutting of Marshall. Authorities doubtable him of cutting a absolute of 14 men in Flint.
Abuelazam has ties to Leesburg, Va., the armpit of three agnate attacks aftermost week, Leesburg badge Officer Chris Jones said. Authorities in Toledo, Ohio, say a cutting in that burghal Saturday appears to be affiliated to the agitated spree.
Authorities initially said Abuelazam was doubtable in 20 stabbings, but two Michigan incidents were disqualified out afterwards added investigation. Leyton said authorities will be "methodical and thorough" as they abide to investigate and book charges.
Atlanta badge said Abuelazam was actuality housed briefly at the burghal bastille afterwards his arrest, but the bastille had no almanac of him. It was not bright if he had an advocate or back he ability be extradited to Michigan.
The aisle to Abuelazam began aftermost week, back he was arrested in Arlington, Va., during a accepted cartage stop. Arlington Detective Crystal L. Nosal said badge accomplished he was basic on a simple advance accreditation in Leesburg, about 30 afar away, but a cloister appear him on claimed recognizance.
The accreditation was different to the stabbings, and Leyton said there was no civic active for Abuelazam or his agent back he was stopped.
Leyton said Arlington badge begin a knife and a bang in Abuelazam's 1996 blooming and gold Chevrolet Blazer, which badge alternate to Abuelazam afterwards briefly impounding it. The agent akin one declared by some cutting victims, and a bang was acclimated in one afterwards advance in Virginia, on a 19-year-old man in a parking lot. Two added attacks – one in Leesburg and the one in Toledo – additionally occurred afterwards the cartage stop.
Abuelazam is an Israeli aborigine who is active in the U.S. with a blooming card, Leyton said.
According to cloister annal in Virginia's Loudoun County, breadth Leesburg is located, he was arrested in December 2007 and answerable with abomination gun possession. Those accuse were alone the abutting year. He was additionally answerable with abomination advance in 2008, and had a cloister date appointed abutting week.
Steve Guss, a advocate who represented Abuelazam in the gun case, said that allegation was a confounding stemming from a antecedent bad-check allegation out of California that Abuelazam did not apprehend was a felony. Guss additionally helped Abuelazam get his blooming card, and recalled him as a "laid-back blazon of guy" who thanked him for his assignment by bringing baklava and added pastries to his law firm.
Jessica Nimitz, an Arlington, Texas, woman who was affiliated to Abuelazam from 2004 to 2007, said she was disturbing to cope with the news.
"I'm surprised," she said in a buzz interview. "I'm aggravating to amount out what's activity on."
The brace affiliated back Jessica was in her backward teens, her ancestor said. Jim Hirth said Abuelazam "seemed all appropriate at the time but I haven't been with him day in and day out ... My whole family is shocked."
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