Police officers moved Thursday to decipher the murder and dismemberment of tech CEO Fahim Saleh in his Lower East Side apartment in New York City, focusing on a “person of interest” and determining how it came to an end.
Multiple New York police sources confirmed that a “person of interest” had been identified, but said he was not yet in police custody.
The informants declined to reveal more details about the man wanted in the still-developing case.
Fahim Saleh, 33, was the CEO of a Nigerian-based motorcycle startup. The New York City medical examiner ruled that his death was a homicide on Thursday, revealing that he suffered “multiple stab wounds to the neck and torso.”
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Saleh, 33, was last seen on surveillance video in the elevator of his East Houston Street building around 1:40 p.m. Monday, climbing into his $ 2.2 million apartment next to a man with a “ninja-like” hood that had followed him. in the elevator, sources have said.
When the doors opened directly to Saleh’s seventh-floor apartment, the man followed him inside and hit him with a Taser in the latest image captured by the surveillance camera.
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At some point during the next 26 hours, Saleh was repeatedly and fatally stabbed in the neck and torso, the city’s coroner’s office revealed Thursday.
A concerned cousin entered the apartment Tuesday to find that Saleh had been beheaded and his four limbs were cut and placed in plastic bags, according to sources.
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This story originally appeared in the New York Post.
