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Four family members slain in their Jersey City, NJ home
Daily News and ABC news ^ | 01.14.05

Posted on 01/14/2005 4:49:16 PM PST by Coleus

Four family members slain in their Jersey City home

JERSEY CITY, N.J.— Four family members were found slain in their home Friday morning. All were bound and gagged, and their throats were slashed, First Assistant Hudson County Prosecutor Gaetano T. Gregory said.

Jersey City police broke down the door to the home about 4 a.m. after concerned relatives said they had not heard from the family for several days, authorities said.

The victims were Hossam Armanious, 46; his wife, Amal Garas, 36; and their daughters, Sylvia Armanious, 16, and Monica Armanious, 8.

No arrests had been made as of Friday afternoon.

Investigators spent the morning at the family's house near the Hudson County Courthouse, donning white boots when entering the green, two-story wood frame home. The porch was bedecked with Christmas decorations including tinsel lights, red bows and garland wrapped around the handrail.

Hossam Armanious bought the house in November 2000 for $96,500, records show.

Ayman Garas, brother of the slain woman, told reporters his sister was "a very peaceful person."

"She's got nothing against anybody," Garas said. "I have no answers."

The younger girl attended P.S. 6, around the corner from the home, while her sister went to Dickenson High School. School authorities had no immediate comment.

"I feel very, very bad," said Mohammed Riaz Khan, who lives across the street from the victims. "They were a nice family."

"They were good people," added Betty Garro, who works as a housekeeper next door.

WNBC-TV in New York reported authorities were investigating whether a former tenant, who had had a dispute with the family, was involved.

Originally published on January 14, 2005



TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; US: New Jersey
KEYWORDS: armanious; bang; banglist; coptic; copticchurch; coptics; crime; homeinvasion; jerseycity; newjersey; nj; ny
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To: Nitro

Time will tell. Could have been a family problem or gang violence which is high in Jersey City.


21 posted on 01/14/2005 5:29:07 PM PST by Coleus (Let us pray for the 150,000 + victims of the tsunami and the 126,000 aborted Children killed daily)
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To: Pan_Yans Wife
I don't know a single thing about this story, but generally your average Joe Citizen isn't executed, along with his family, bound and gagged, unless they're involved in some shenanigans.

There are always exceptions of course, but statistically, in this sort of crime scene, at least one of the victims knows exactly who's killing them and why they're killing them.

22 posted on 01/14/2005 5:32:38 PM PST by dead (I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
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To: MinuteGal

what is there about Coptic Christian that you don't understand?


23 posted on 01/14/2005 5:33:21 PM PST by EDINVA (a FReeper in PJ's beats a CBS anchor in a suit every time)
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To: dead

All of that is true. But the article doesn't mention religion, thus my skepticism.


24 posted on 01/14/2005 5:33:42 PM PST by Pan_Yans Wife (" It is not true that life is one damn thing after another-it's one damn thing over and over." ESV)
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To: Coleus
You are right...

until amything of substance comes to light four people have been murdered and I hope the JCPD runs down the killer/s.

25 posted on 01/14/2005 5:35:51 PM PST by Nitro
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To: Coleus
Good thing the family wasn't allowed to have a gun in the house. Someone might have gotten hurt.

God rest the souls of these indirect victims of socialist social engineering. Four more victims on the Democrats' non-existent conscience.

26 posted on 01/14/2005 5:36:34 PM PST by Hardastarboard
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To: Nitro
I am thinking safe house gone wrong.

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Yeah, another of those blood thirsty Orthodox Catholic (Coptic) familes.

27 posted on 01/14/2005 5:38:53 PM PST by wtc911 ("I would like at least to know his name.")
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To: Pan_Yans Wife
Well Egyptian strongly implies Muslim, and Jersey City is an absolute hot bed of militant islamics, so I can understand some speculation along those lines.

I don't think speculating hurts anything. They're not likely to get more dead as a result of it.

28 posted on 01/14/2005 5:40:08 PM PST by dead (I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
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To: LoneRangerMassachusetts

That story that I told you about, the cab driver, it also happened in Jersey City.


29 posted on 01/14/2005 5:40:21 PM PST by peter the great (Bret Schundler Next Governor of New Jersey)
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To: EDINVA
What is there about politeness you don't understand?

Leni

30 posted on 01/14/2005 5:40:29 PM PST by MinuteGal
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To: Pan_Yans Wife

Well, for what it's worth, I was only thinking along the lines of their being "punished" for being infidels.


31 posted on 01/14/2005 5:41:43 PM PST by Trinity_Tx (Most of our so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believin as we already do)
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To: Pan_Yans Wife

Well, someone has decided to take the high road.

Spoil sport. 8>)


32 posted on 01/14/2005 5:43:04 PM PST by GOP_Proud (Those who proclaim tolerance have the least for my views.)
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To: Doc Savage

The people who were killed were Eastern Rite Christians, Coptics. The Egyptian Coptic Church is a Christian church founded in 58 A.D. by Mark the Apostle.


33 posted on 01/14/2005 5:43:23 PM PST by Coleus (Let us pray for the 150,000 + victims of the tsunami and the 126,000 aborted Children killed daily)
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To: Coleus

Who livd in that apatment house next door? I'd be looking at them.

Orthodox Christmas: money, jewelry, gifts.

Some punk gang of the usual persuasion in Jersey City, I would say.


34 posted on 01/14/2005 5:45:00 PM PST by Palladin (Proud to be a FReeper!)
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To: wtc911
I am an Irish Catholic...

say I get murdered and I have a picture of Malcolm X on my wall...

does that make me a Black Militant?

I was not accusing, but as another poster surmised, violent death plus middle eastern heritage plus method of death...

it just sets off alarm bells in people who know a little more than the average civilian.

35 posted on 01/14/2005 5:48:56 PM PST by Nitro
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To: dead

Somebody is Pissed off. Maybe it's the former tenant.

WNBC-TV in New York reported authorities were investigating whether a former tenant who had had a dispute with the family was involved.


36 posted on 01/14/2005 6:10:52 PM PST by Coleus (Abortion and Euthanasia, Don't Democrats just kill ya! Kill Humans, Save the Bears!!)
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To: peter the great
...about a month ago there was a cab driver who was Coptic Orthodox, engaged to be married and was about to head off into the Seminary to become a Priest. It was a horrible story but also something that I wonder about.

What happened to the cabbie?

37 posted on 01/14/2005 6:38:48 PM PST by LoneRangerMassachusetts (Some say what's good for others, the others make the goods; it's the meddlers against the peddlers)
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To: Pan_Yans Wife

My guess is that the news media doesn't care to broadcast that Arab muzlims are going around butchering Arab Christians, including children, in the United States...Wouldn't look so good for the religion of peace...


38 posted on 01/14/2005 6:43:27 PM PST by Iscool
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To: LoneRangerMassachusetts

I am sorry the cabbie was the guy who was murdered, and was from Egypt, Coptic Orthodox etc.


39 posted on 01/14/2005 6:45:48 PM PST by peter the great (Bret Schundler Next Governor of New Jersey)
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To: LoneRangerMassachusetts

....Bingo


40 posted on 01/14/2005 6:58:29 PM PST by yer gonna put yer eye out (Gettin' a PhD at FR...(PrettyHard on Democrats))
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