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NYPD searching for man in shopkeeper shootings
Associated Press ^ | 20 NOV 2012 | COLLEEN LONG

Posted on 11/20/2012 3:11:07 AM PST by BCW

NEW YORK (AP) — Detectives on Monday searched for a balding, middle-aged man seen wearing an overcoat and carrying a duffel bag after a shopkeeper was shot dead as investigators tried to figure out whether a violent armed robber or a serial killer had slain three business owners in the past four months.

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After the latest killing, detectives discovered the same gun was used in the fatal shootings of two other shopkeepers when ballistics matched the .22-caliber gun shell casings on all three. On July 6, Mohamed Gebeli, 65, an Egyptian immigrant and a Muslim, was found shot in the back of his shop, Valentino Fashion Inc. On Aug. 6, Isaac Kadare, 59, also Egyptian but Jewish, was shot in the head in his store, Amazing 99 Cent Deal.

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To: cycjec

With the economic climate as it is - easy prey is easy pickings...opportunism may become the rule of the day in the near future! That guy may be the tip of the iceberg then...


21 posted on 12/03/2012 3:20:36 PM PST by BCW (http://babylonscovertwar.com/index.html)
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To: BCW

Bad as it sounds, you may be right. Various news sites
report that the person charged is one Salvatore Perron,
63 years old, of Staten Island. Not sure how the NYPD
tracked him down.


22 posted on 12/05/2012 10:00:30 PM PST by cycjec
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To: BCW

Update: you were right in your surmise and I was wrong
in my first and later reply. “John Doe Duffel Bag” (am
not giving his name bc of the others who share it). is
a delusional nut-case, and it may well be that he targeted
his victims because of perceived ethnicity. (although
two at least religions are represented). He also was known,
albeit casually to his victims; another of his sales route
clients recognized him. He has several arrests in his past.
Despite that, he can be “personable.” I was really wondering
how the victims were taken off guard by the sort of person
I was incorrectly surmising to be the perpetrator.


23 posted on 12/05/2012 11:13:50 PM PST by cycjec
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Actually you were correct - it wasn’t a directed hit by a nation state - a crazy person who visited these people - and he folded in their ethnicity into the equation - but as you’ve stated - he was targeting them because they were easy to target - I would say location has to be a big factor in that as well...

I do wonder, however, where or who, taught him about these “perceived ethnic” factors...hoping or leading him to act the way he did...kinda like a “social bomb”...or maybe that’s just going to far into the analysis???


24 posted on 12/06/2012 4:52:47 AM PST by BCW (http://babylonscovertwar.com/index.html)
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