The sister of Fahim Saleh – the technical CEO who was murdered and dismantled in his Manhattan apartment – on Thursday paid an emotional tribute to her ‘beautiful’ brother, revealing that his burnt head and limbs on his body were being sewn back for his funeral.
The lengthy Medium post by Ruby Angela Saleh came on the one-month anniversary of the gruesome death of the 33-year-old entrepreneur.
“On July 13, 2020, exactly one month ago, my brother returned from a three-mile run and was murdered in his apartment,” Ruby wrote. ‘Sometimes it does not really feel like Fahim is gone yet. And sometimes it feels to me too precise as the cruel, heinous and unbearable reality that it is, shows me nothing but darkness and feels nothing but excruciating pain in every quadrant of my heart. ”
The touching post includes multiple family photos of Fahim with his two sisters and parents and details of his life cut short – his love for his 3-year-old Pomsky dog, Laila, his arrogance towards his family and co-workers, his obsession with technology that it started when he was just a kid.
“Fahim’s brain was a bottomless magic hat of ideas big and small, wacky and serious, locally and globally,” wrote Ruby of the tech whiz, who was the CEO of the Nigerian Ride-Healing-Motorcycle- Gokada app. ‘You never knew what he was going to pull after that, but he had to work away on every idea. He could not let anyone sit; he was too excited to introduce the vision in his head to the world for the rest of us to enjoy. ‘
She said her family was broken when she moved from Saudi Arabia to America, where her father worked as a computer programmer in Louisiana. Fahim’s upbringing resonated with him after he made it into the tech sector.
“Fahim came from such a small, had zero interest in being a wealthy entrepreneur who hung out only with other wealthy entrepreneurs,” Ruby wrote. ‘His heart was most open to people in need. ‘These drivers depend on me,’ he would say when talking about Gokada, the motorcycle app he developed in Nigeria. Just as he was once determined to alleviate the difficulties of our father, he later devoted himself to alleviating the difficulties of countless others. ‘
Fahim’s former executive assistant, Tyrese Haspil, is accused of stabbing and escaping his one-time boss after allegedly embezzling more than $ 90,000 from him. Fahim had offered not to call the police if Haspil, 21, reimbursed him in installments.
Ruby reminded her sister to call after she got a panicked call from her aunt, who broke the news that Fahim had been murdered.
‘She found his torso in his living room,’ said Sister Ruby, referring to the cousin who apparently interrupted Haspil when he chopped Fahim’s body with an electric saw.
Fahim’s arms and legs were wrapped in garbage bags scattered across his $ 2.2 million Lower East Side apartment.
Ruby said she had to identify her brother’s murdered body via a photo on the computer because of the outbreak of the coronavirus – making his death even more real.
“I started stroking his face on the computer screen with my index finger when tears ran down my cheeks,” she wrote. ‘I just wanted to tell him,’ I’m sorry, Fahim, I’m sorry, Fahim. My poor, sweet brother. My heart.'”
She also reminds them that they had to plead the Hudson Valley funeral for her brother’s body parts to be in the “right places in the coffin” – after being told that it “would not be possible for his members to sewing and returning to his torso for burial. ”
“The day before the funeral, the man called me again,” Ruby wrote. ” It was not easy, but we were able to bring him back together. ”
Ruby, who saw her baby brother a year ago, also posted a tearful YouTube video from her parents’ house, with a coat displayed in the background lined with his photos.
“My family and I are in such shock and debilitating pain,” she said. “Our beautiful boy is taken from us and at the moment it does not feel that life can ever be happy again.”
The sister said her father spent his days visiting Fahim’s beloved Laila, “talking to her in the same loving tone he reserved for my brother” and watching and reading about his son’s achievements.
“My mother spends her days crying,” Ruby wrote. “At night she can not sleep.”
Ruby promised that her family would fight to bring Fahim’s murderer to justice, calling his death “a crime of the cruelest and most heinous in nature.”
Haspil has pleaded guilty to second-degree murder.
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