Posted on 02/19/2005 4:30:53 PM PST by Selkie
I don't think we missed anything except anger.
Yesterday's Sunday NYPost said that there appaears to be a break in the case (according to an anonymous source), while Jersey City Reproter says differently.........
02/20/2005 Jersey City Reporter. Last week, when Hudson County Prosecutor Edward J. DeFazio was asked about the status of the investigation into the Armanious family murders, he gave the same answer that he has given to all inquiries since the discovery of the murders on Jan. 14: "There are no suspects at the present time." The Armanious family - Hossam Armanious, 47, his wife Amal Garas, 37, and the couple's two daughters, Sylvia, 15, and Monica, 8 - were found by the Jersey City Police Department in their Oakland Avenue home early in the morning in separate rooms, bound and gagged with their throats punctured. According to police, the family had apparently been dead for two days before they were discovered. Since then, local and federal authorities working together on the case have had few very leads. ............ DeFazio also said that he has ruled out the theory that the murders were because Hossam Armanious' religious-based postings on an Internet chat site angered Muslims visiting the site. The Armanious family were Coptic Christians who emigrated from Egypt in 1997. snip...... http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?BRD=1291&dept_id=523586&newsid=13999027&PAG=461&rfi=9
GRIEF'S GRIP
School 6 lesson plan: Calm kids' fears, plan memorial
Thursday, February 17, 2005
By Molly Bloom
Journal staff writer
When the morning bell rings in Camille Mitarotonda's classroom at School 6 in Jersey City, her third-graders file in and take their seats. But even at full attendance, one desk remains empty.
That empty seat belonged to Monica Armanious, who last month was brutally murdered along with her father, mother and older sister, Sylvia, a sophomore at Dickinson High School, in their Oakland Avenue home.
"The teachers asked me what to do and I said, 'Just leave everything where it is until we know what to do,'" said School 6 Principal Richard Messano.
As the law enforcement investigation of the slayings continues, students, teachers and staff at both School 6 and Dickinson are still struggling to come to terms with the sisters' deaths.
Monica was a member of the gifted and talented program at School 6. Born in Luxor, Egypt, she came to Jersey City with her family in 1997.
"You just couldn't ask for a nicer child in your classroom or building," Messano said. "She was an adorable little young lady."
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Some School 6 students have told teachers they are worried about their own safety, said Messano.
"We tell the (students) not to be frightened, that mom and dad are there with you. We tell them 'Your house is secure. There are people there to look out for you and take care of you. This will probably not happen to you,'" he said.
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Sylvia Armanious, a graduate of School 6's gifted and talented program, was "very much a poet," Messano said. She had been enrolled in the Jersey City school district's Visual and Performing Arts High School program.
As part of the program, students spend half their days studying visual and performing arts on the New Jersey City University campus and then attend normal high school for core subjects.
Sylvia was "bright and personable," the kind of girl who would pop in and say hello to her former teachers when stopping by the school to pick up her little sister, Messano said.
"She was hard not to like," he said.
School 6 and Dickinson staff are planning to hold a joint memorial service for the girls early next month, Messano said.
The service will probably feature performances by Sylvia's classmates in the performing arts program and readings of her poetry, as well as some of Monica's artwork and remembrances of her from her classmates, Messano said.
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http://www.nj.com/news/jjournal/index.ssf?/base/news-3/110863891210550.xml
Thank you Selkie for the ping.
Bump
DeFazio also said that he has ruled out the theory that the murders were because Hossam Armanious' religious-based postings on an Internet chat site angered Muslims visiting the site.
Ok. This tells me the case is going into the unsolved file.
Yes I thought the same thing. :-(
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