ANew Jerseyman was arrested Saturday in connection with thedeadly shooting in Jersey Citylast week that left four people dead – after investigators found his phone number tucked in the pocket of one of the two gunmen who opened fire on the Jewish market.
Ahmed A-Hady, (***************************************, of Keyport, wastaken into custodyby FBI agents and charged with possessing a firearm while being a previously convicted felon, theUS Attorney’s Office for the District of New Jerseysaid in anews release.
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Two suspected shooters – David Anderson, 47, and Francine Graham, 400 –killed four people on Tuesday, according to officials who have described the attack as an anti-Semitic hate crime that is now being investigated as domestic terrorism , and they were both found dead after an hours-long shootout with police.
In Anderson’s back pants pocket, law enforcement found “a handwritten note” that contained a phone number and address inKeyport, NJ, a town roughly****************** miles south of Jersey City, that ultim ately led investigators to A-Hady. The phone number was his and the address was that of a pawnshop storefront.
The U.S. Attorney’s Office said A-Hady was found to have purchased Smith and Wesson. 50 – caliber and. 50 -caliber firearms in following a conviction for attempting to obtain a controlled dangerous substance or analog by fraud in 01575879. Because of that conviction, he was banned from owning firearms.
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Inside a safe at the pawnshop on Friday night, investigators found three weapons, including the. – caliber handgun, and recovered six rifles – including three AR – – style rifles – three handguns and a shotgun. Authorities also recovered rounds of ammunition, including “a large number of hollow” -point bullets. “
A-Hady’s relationship with the shooters was not immediately clear.
Investigators said Anderson and Graham, who appear to have acted alone even though they had expressed interest in the Black Hebrew Israelites, a fringe religious group that often disparages whites and Jews,killed Jersey City Detective Joseph Sealsat a cemetery when he reportedly recognized the two as suspects wanted in the December 7 murder of an Uber driver.
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Anderson and Graham also killed Mindy Ferencz, who co-owned the JC Kosher Supermarket, Moshe Deutsch, who was buying a sandwich at the market, and Douglas Rodriguez, who was an employee at the store.
Steven Fulop, themayor of Jersey City, suggested on Twitter Friday the gunmenmay have actually targeted(children at a Yeshiva school attached to the supermarket.)**********************(Read More**************************
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