Dad kills himself live on paltalk website
The heartless killer not only slit Sylvia’s throat, but also sliced a huge gash in her chest and stabbed her in the wrist, where the young girl had a tattoo of an Egyptian Christian cross.Īlso found murdered were the wife, Amal Garas, and the parents’ other daughter, Monica.įred Ayed, the deacon at St. “When we saw the pictures, you could tell that they were hurt really, really bad in the face especially Sylvia,” said Milad Garas, the high-school sophomore’s great-uncle. “She was very religious and very opinionated,” said Jessica Cimino, 15, a fellow sophomore at Dickenson HS.Ī family member who viewed photos of the bloodbath said Sylvia seemed to have taken the most savage punishment. Jersey City Mayor Jerramiah Healy would neither confirm nor deny that cops and prosecutors were looking into the religion motive, saying only that “nothing is being ruled out.”īut a relative of the mayor who answered the phone at Healy’s home said there was information that the murders were “religion-related.”Īrmanious’ fervor apparently rubbed off on his daughter, Sylvia – who would have turned 16 yesterday. “You’d better stop this bull- or we are going to track you down like a chicken and kill you,” was the threat, said the clerk, who was online at the time and saw the exchange.īut Armanious refused to back down, according to two sources who use the Web site. The married father of two had recently been threatened by Muslim members of the Web site, said a fellow Copt and grocery-store clerk who uses the chat room. But he said cops told him they were looking into the exchanges as a possible motive. The source, who had knowledge of the investigation, refused to specify the anti-Muslim statement. He “had the reputation for being one of the most outspoken Egyptian Christians,” said the source, who had close ties to the family. Hossam Armanious, 47, who along with his wife and two daughters was found stabbed to death in his Jersey City home early Friday, would regularly debate religion in a Middle Eastern chat room, one source said.Īrmanious, an Egyptian Christian, was well known for expressing his Coptic beliefs and engaging in fiery back-and-forth with Muslims on the Web site. The father of a murdered New Jersey family was threatened for making anti-Muslim remarks online – and the gruesome quadruple slaying may have been the hateful retaliation, sources told The Post yesterday.