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Murder Charge in Michigan for Serial Stab Suspect

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Serial stabbings suspect arraigned on new charges


Elias Abuelazam
has been charged with the first of what promises to be several murder charges in a serial-stabbing spree across three states that prosecutors say "terrorized our citizens."

Abuelazam was charged in the stabbing death of Flint, Mich., man Arnold Minor, 49, and was hit with four additional counts of attempted murder as part of a stabbing spree that left five men dead and injured 9 others in the Flint area.

Abuelazam, an Israeli national, is also suspected in two stabbings, a hammer attack in Virginia and a stabbing in Ohio.

Authorities seem to be going back-and-forth in deciding whether Abuelazam had a racial motive in his attacks. When news of the stabbings was released this summer, police departments in Virginia and Michigan said black men appeared to be targeted in the stabbings.


But authorities seemed to back off that racial motive when Abuelazam was captured at an Atlanta airport Aug. 11th just minutes before boarding a flight back to Israel.

A prosecutor in Michigan said yesterday, however, that it does appear that Abuelazam was targeting black men, cruising areas of Flint and surrounding neighborhoods.

Flint Police Chief Alvern Lock said race may have been a factor in the stabbing spree, but there is no evidence it was the key factor.

I'm not sure what Lock is looking at but when 12 of 14 of the victims were black, that's enough evidence for me that Abuelazam was using race to pick his victims.

 

 



 

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