Chopped to Pieces: How Gokada founder, Fahim Saleh was brutally murdered in New York

Fahim Saleh’s body was chopped to pieces

The founder of Nigeria’s motorcyle taxi hailing firm, Gokada has been brutally murdered in New York.

The New York Times reports that Saleh’s “decapitated, dismembered body was found in an apartment in a luxury condominium building on Manhattan’s Lower East Side on Tuesday afternoon,” quoting officials.

According to the report, when detectives began investigating, they found the man’s torso and an electric saw nearby, two law enforcement officials briefed on the matter said. The man’s head and limbs were later found in the apartment, a Police Department spokesman said.

There were several large plastic bags in the apartment, and it appeared that some effort had been made to clean up any evidence of what had happened, one law enforcement officials briefed on the matter said, the report said.

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The police did not immediately identify the man, but several friends who spoke on the condition of anonymity said he was Fahim Saleh, a 33-year-old technology entrepreneur and the owner of the condo where the body was found.

The New York Times report said it was Mr. Saleh’s sister that made the gruesome discovery at around 3:30 p.m. when she went to check on him after not hearing from him for a day, the officials said. After finding the body, she called the police, officials said.

The saw was still plugged into an electrical outlet when the police arrived, leading detectives to investigate whether the arrival of Mr. Saleh’s sister at the condo might have interrupted the killing and prompted the killer to flee through another exit, one of the law enforcement told New York Times.

The medical examiner has not officially determined the cause of death, but police were investigating the incident as a homicide, the officials said.

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