New York detectives said the man accused of beheading and dismembering his former boss, a technology businessman, was seen in surveillance video at a Manhattan hardware store buying a chainsaw and cleaning supplies.
Fahim Saleh, 33, was killed Tuesday in his luxurious apartment in downtown Manhattan, according to police. His personal assistant, Tyrese Devon Haspil, 21, was jailed without bail early Saturday morning after being charged with the murder, according to Manhattan prosecutors.
The video shows Haspil went to the hardware store to buy a saw and cleaning supplies on Tuesday morning, Detective Salvator Tudisco said in court documents obtained Saturday by Fox News.
Tyrese Haspil, 21, is escorted out of Precinct 7 by New York Police detectives on Friday, July 17, 2020, in New York. Haspil faces a murder charge in the death of Fahim Saleh, a 33-year-old tech businessman who was found dismembered inside her luxurious Manhattan condo.
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FORMER PERSONAL ASSISTANT TO TECH CEO FOUND DISMEMBLED IN NYC APARTMENT CHARGED WITH MURDER
He is quoted as saying he found those items near Saleh’s decapitated and dismembered body after responding to the apartment Tuesday afternoon.
According to court documents, surveillance video of the apartment building shows an individual who follows Saleh to the elevator and then shoots him down with an electric pistol.
Tudisco said that a woman who interviewed recognized the individual as Haspil.
An autopsy showed that Saleh had been stabbed five times in the neck and torso and that there were multiple other injuries to his arm, hand, forehead and back, according to the court document.
DISCOVERED AND DISMEMBERED BODY FOUND IN THE MANHATTAN APARTMENT: SOURCES
He added that “the body had been dismembered and decapitated just below the knees, both the shoulders and the neck.”
WABC-TV quoted sources Friday as saying detectives recovered text messages in which Saleh accused Haspil of stealing tens of thousands of dollars from him.
The station reported that Haspil entered the apartment building in a costume.
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Saleh served as CEO of a motorcycle startup called Gokada that he founded in Nigeria.
Marta Dhanis of Fox New contributed to this report.
