Chicago: The 26-year-old son of Egypt’s Minister of Immigration and Migration Affairs, Nabila Makram, is facing charges of premeditated murder in connection with the April murders of two people in California.
Remi Hani Mounir Faheem, who lives in Irvine, Calif., has also been charged with two euthanasias, each of them lying in wait and the personal use of a deadly weapon after a co-worker and her roommate were last seen in their Anaheim apartment. was put to death. month.
Officials said that “waiting out” and the special circumstances of the multiple murders make Faheem eligible for the death penalty.
Police allege that Faheem attacked and killed his co-worker, 23-year-old Griffin Cuomo, then killed Cuomo’s roommate, 23-year-old Jonathan Baham, in his Anaheim apartment at around 6:30 a.m. on April 19, 2022 .
Cuomo and Fahim worked together at Pence Wealth Management, an Orange County company. Faheem was a data engineer working as a research associate at the firm.
He is being held without bail at the Intake Release Center and was produced on May 6 at the North Justice Center in Fullerton, California.
According to investigators, a building security guard confronted Faheem on the terrace of the apartment complex at midnight on April 18, hours before the murders. Faheem was seen on the same floor of the victims’ apartment on the morning of the murders.
Orange County District Attorney Todd Spitzer said Faheem was still inside the victims’ apartment when Anaheim police responded to a 911 emergency call.
“These young men were just starting to live out their dreams and find their place in the world. But an intruder who followed them and then killed them in their own home, disrupted those dreams,” Spitzer he said.
“The brutal manner in which the two young lives were ended cannot be ignored and we will do everything possible to ensure justice.”
Egypt’s Minister of Immigration and Overseas Affairs, Nabila Makram, issued a statement on Facebook on Saturday, saying she and her family were going through “a serious test”.
In the statement, before the minister after Faheem’s arrest on April 22, Makram prayed for her son and the two victims, and said she would continue with her duties as minister.
“My family and I are in serious trouble since my son was charged with murder in America. The allegation is before a US court and the sentence has not yet been issued.”
“Performing my duties as a minister in the Egyptian government does not contradict me at all with being a faithful mother who bravely confronts her son’s plight. Whatever the consequences, a minister As such, I take full responsibility for my situation and the requirements of working with it, and I clearly distinguish between personal and public.”
Faheem will remain in custody till the bail review hearing to be held on June 17.