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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSuspect Is Arrested in Grisly Killing of Tech C.E.O. Fahim Saleh
Mr. Saleh, 33, was found dismembered and decapitated inside his Manhattan apartment.The personal assistant of a young tech entrepreneur who was found decapitated and dismembered in his Manhattan apartment this week was arrested early on Friday and is expected to be charged in the grisly killing, according to two 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.
She found a gruesome scene: Mr. Salehs head and limbs had been removed, and parts of his body had been placed in large plastic bags. An electric saw was still plugged in nearby.
The personal assistant, Tyrese Devon Haspil, 21, was expected to be charged in a criminal complaint with second degree murder and other crimes.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/17/nyregion/fahim-saleh-suspect-tyrese-devon-haspil.html
soothsayer
(38,601 posts)Thats not a good assistant
drray23
(7,638 posts)Sorry for the macabre humour, could not resist..
Beakybird
(3,334 posts)soothsayer
(38,601 posts)Fozzledick
(3,860 posts)GulfCoast66
(11,949 posts)LisaL
(44,982 posts)Really, really, really bad assistant. Assistant allegedly stole money from the victim, which victim discovered. Victim wanted assistant to repay him the money. So apparently that was the motive.
soothsayer
(38,601 posts)Demovictory9
(32,492 posts)Nevilledog
(51,281 posts)Turns out it was his assistant taking Ivanka's advice to #FindSomethingNew.
peggysue2
(10,849 posts)Grisly but funny.
I'd like to know why this is a second degree murder charge rather than first? Certainly sounds premeditated with plenty of malice and absolutely gruesome in detail. Can't imagine finding a scene like this. Yikes!
Nevilledog
(51,281 posts)superpatriotman
(6,254 posts)Got caught.
Killed and dismembered the boss.
greenjar_01
(6,477 posts)This was a case for Briscoe and Green.
winstars
(4,220 posts)chowder66
(9,104 posts)Please, cut it out with the snarky jokes and show some compassion for the murder victim.
obamanut2012
(26,181 posts)GulfCoast66
(11,949 posts)But sometimes we are presented with a situation so horrible and unfathomable that humor is a defense mechanism for our sanity. I think it is human nature.
When I was diagnosed with bladder cancer humor kept me sane. Laughed at my situation.
chowder66
(9,104 posts)I get gallows humor and coping humor but it's hard to discern tone and there were a few in a row with no real sympathy to be found.
I also use humor - for just about everything; however, this story is brutal and disturbing. So the humor seems out of place to me and that's simply my opinion. I think some just see a headline and react. I get that too but I think this story deserves at least a little processing.
Empathy is what I wish and hope for before seeing people resorting to humor in cases like this.
And for what it's worth; I worry more about the family and loved ones of the victim being offended when they come across this kind of stuff from all over the internet. I have no real right to be offended, they do though.
GulfCoast66
(11,949 posts)StarfishSaver
(18,486 posts)This is a horrific tragedy. That poor young man. Nothing funny about it.
renate
(13,776 posts)I don't want to be a scold, but some comments were so disrespectful. This was a horrific, sadistic crime.
SMC22307
(8,090 posts)not what I'd expect to see on DU.
Crunchy Frog
(26,706 posts)JDC
(10,145 posts)KWR65
(1,098 posts)The punishment is the same for 2nd and 1st degree murder.
JDC
(10,145 posts)KWR65
(1,098 posts)This is so sad. I hope the killer gets a very long prison sentence.