Jersey City Man Indicted For Beheading Two
Jersey City Man Indicted For Beheading Two
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Yusuf Ibrahim (New Jersey State Police)
A Jersey City man has been indicted on charges of fatally shooting two men in a parked car, then cutting off their heads in February 2013.
29-year-old Yusuf Ibrahim was arrested on February 10th, 2013 after he allegedly shot 25-year-old Hanny Tawadros and 27-year-old Amgad Konds in their chests during an argument in a Mercedes Benz, the Star-Ledger reports. Their bodies were found buried in a shallow grave nearby, with another grave containing their heads and hands.
Ibrahim has been indicted on several counts of murder, felony murder, kidnapping, robbery and desecrating human remains, among others. He faces up to two life sentences and is being held on $3.5 million bail.
The indictment came just hours after Ibrahim was arraigned for robbing a man and shooting him in the foot in 2012.
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Jersey City man accused of killing, decapitating 2 men pleads not guilty
Jersey City man accused of killing, decapitating 2 men pleads not guilty
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By Jonathan Lin/The Jersey Journal
on May 19, 2014 at 4:42 PM, updated May 19, 2014 at 4:43 PM
The Jersey City man charged with fatally shooting two men and then decapitating and dismembering them pleaded not guilty to those charges in court earlier this afternoon.
Yusuf Ibrahim, 29, appeared at around 2:30 p.m. in front of Judge Mitzy Galis-Menendez in the Hudson County Administration Building and showed no emotion as lawyers briefly filled the judge in with case details.
Ibrahim was charged last year with shooting Hanny F. Tawadros, 25, and Amgad A. Konds, 27, during an argument inside a Mercedes Benz belonging to one of the victims on Feb. 5, 2013, officials said.
Two days later, police received a report of suspicious activity at a home in Buena Vista Township in Atlantic County. Detectives searching the area with cadaver dogs found the victims buried in shallow graves and their heads and hands buried nearby.
During the investigation, police learned Ibrahim had driven the Mercedes to Philadelphia after the murders and attempted to set it on fire, but was interrupted by local police. He was later tracked by State Police to a Bayonne apartment, officials said.
On April 28, Ibrahim was indicted on two counts each of murder, felony murder, kidnapping, robbery and desecrating human remains, as well as numerous other crimes related to the murders and mutilation of the bodies. He faces up to two life sentences on the murder charges.
Ibrahim’s bail was set at $3.3 million, cash-only, for the two murder charges and the charge of desecrating human remains.
Today, Deputy Attorney Generals Philip Mogavero and Vincent J. Militello presented a 60-count indictment against Ibrahim to the judge, noting that the most serious charges were first-degree murder, felony murder, kidnapping and robbery.
They told Galis-Menendez that they were offering Ibrahim a plea bargain of 60 years in prison before parole eligibility, if he were to plead guilty to the charges.
Ibrahim's lawyer, Thomas Campbell, entered a plea of not guilty.
Hudson County Assistant Prosecutor Angela Gingerelli was also present in the courtroom, as she is handling a first-degree carjacking charge that has also been levied against Ibrahim from an incident on Sept. 19, 2012.
In that incident, Ibrahim allegedly followed a man to his car at Yale and Mallory avenues, attacked him and stole his car, officials said.
Galis-Menendez scheduled a status conference for June 16, telling the lawyers she wanted to know of any motions they planned to file on that date.
That is also the date on which Ibrahim will get a trial date for the carjacking charge if that charge is not resolved before then, she told Gingerelli.
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