Slain tech CEO Fahim Saleh’s personal assistant charged with his gruesome murder
- Police say Tyrese Haspil, 21, attacked his boss with stun gun a day before victim’s dismembered body was found in luxury New York flat
- Suspect handled finances and personal matters for Saleh, whose ventures included the Gokada ride-hailing service in Nigeria
A personal assistant arrested on Friday in the slaying of a 33-year-old tech entrepreneur who was found dismembered inside his luxury New York condo was believed to have owed his boss a “significant amount of money”, police said.
Tyrese Haspil, 21, of Brooklyn, faces a murder charge in the death of Fahim Saleh, whose beheaded body was found Tuesday afternoon by a relative who had gone to his apartment to check on him. Haspil had handled finances and personal matters for Saleh, whose ventures included a ride-hailing service in Africa.
Information on Haspil’s arraignment or a lawyer who could speak on his behalf were not immediately available.
Police said officers responding to the relative’s emergency services call discovered Saleh’s clothed torso, bags containing a head and arms and an electric saw in the living room of his luxury seventh-floor apartment on Manhattan’s Lower East Side.
Investigators recovered security video showing Saleh exiting a lift that leads directly into the full-floor, two-bedroom apartment, closely followed by a masked person dressed entirely in black, according to a law enforcement official who was briefed on the case.
The video also showed a struggle between the two that ensued at the entrance to the apartment, said the official, who was not authorised to discuss the investigation and spoke on the condition of anonymity.