Thank you LJ!
Update, still not many details:
It's happened before in Jersey City
Thursday, September 22, 2005
By CRAIG GARRETSON
The brutal slayings discovered yesterday in Greenville evoke memories of three previous slayings of families in Jersey City.
ARMANIOUS FAMILY
On the morning of Jan. 14, police found the bodies of Hossam Armanious, 47; his wife, 37-year-old Amal Garas; and their daughters, 16-year-old Sylvia and 9-year-old Monica. Police were called after relatives said they hadn't heard from the family for three days.
Armanious and Garas were born in Egypt and were Coptic Christians, and some believed the slayings had been motivated by religious hatred. However, police say the slayings were the result of a botched robbery attempt, and on March 4, the family's upstairs tenant, Edward McDonald, and Hamilton Sanchez were arraigned on four counts of felony murder. Each has pleaded not guilty.
MURDER IN MARION
At 7 a.m. on July 30, 2002, two young boys, ages 6 and 2, told a neighbor their mother was dead. Police entered the home, in Jersey City's Marion section, and found the bodies of their mother, 30-year-old Sharon Yassim; grandmother, 49-year-old Bernadette Seajatan; and aunt, 29-year-old Marlyn Hassan, who was pregnant with twins. Each had been stabbed many times, police said.
Hassan's husband, Alim Hassan, then 31, was arrested on the night of the murders as he tried to enter Canada. Hassan, a citizen of Guyana, later pleaded guilty to two counts of murder and one count of aggravated manslaughter, admitting he stabbed each woman more than 20 times.
EXECUTION-STYLE
A woman and two girls were found shot to death in their Lafayette Gardens apartment on Feb. 7, 1994.
Barbara Wilson-Watterman, 27; her daughter, 4-year-old Bianca Yolanda Wilson; and a family friend, 13-year-old Felicia Council, were each shot in the head and left in different rooms, police said.
Nothing was apparently stolen from the home and there were no signs of a struggle or forced entry, police said. No one was ever arrested in connection with the slayings.
"This has all the characteristics of an execution," a police official said at the time.
How horrible. It certainly sounds as though some of these crimes have more than meets the eye as to the motive.
"Hassan" a citizen of Guyana? Isn't that in South America? Was he born there? If so, where were his parents from? Or was the Guyana citizenship just paper?
So many execution style murders. I wonder if any cops/DAs are actually doing real investigations. Now I remember those arrested in the Coptic family murder were neighbors and the crimes was supposedly a robbery. Robbery my ***. Sorry for the crudeness but that just seems an absurdity.