BEECHER, Michigan — The manager and regular customers of a party store where the suspected Flint serial killer worked said he was a quiet guy who sometimes joked around.
Abdullah Farah, manager of Kingwater Market on Coldwater Road and Detroit Street in Beecher, said the man arrested this morning worked for him from July 5 to Aug. 1 and was originally from Israel.
The man didn’t display an unusual or angry attitude toward African American customers, he said. The serial stabber had been targeting black men.
“I’m shocked,” he said.
“Me and my employees and my sister were all working around this guy,” he said. “If he’s the guy, he should be hanged.”
Farah said the law enforcement task force investigating the case came into his store at 10 a.m. on Wednesday morning asking to see surveillance tapes. The police didn’t leave until 8 p.m. that night, he said.
Farah said the tapes showed the suspect working at the store during his usual shift, 3 p.m.-2 a.m. The tapes didn’t show any unusual behavior, he said.
Farah said the man abruptly stopped working for him Aug. 1 when he said he needed to go visit relatives in Virginia.
“He came in one day and said he needed a job,” Farah said. “I helped him.”
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