A Killer of an App } 2 Young Gays Find their killer Thu Grindr GPS locator(Killer Arrested in NJ)
Ali Muhammad Brown
SEATTLE — Ali Muhammad Brown, suspected of the June 1 double murder in Seattle’s Central District, was arrested in West Orange, N.J., on Friday.
The West Orange Police Department said officers arrested Brown in the area of the 200 block of Mt. Pleasant Avenue without incident. He was booked at the Homicide Task Force for two open murder warrants from a June 1 double murder in Seattle and an arrest warrant for a carjacking in Point Pleasant, N.J., on June 29.
Brown will be housed at the Essex County Correctional Center and turned over to the U.S. Marshals Service, the department said.
Brown, who is originally from the East Orange, N.J., area but who has lived in Burien, Kent and Federal Way, is accused of gunning down 27-year-old Ahmed Said and 23-year-old Dwone Anderson-Young at 29th and King Street in Seattle on June 1.
Police say the men may have been targeted because they are gay.
Seattle police investigators believe Brown, 30, used Grindr — an app that enables gay men to use their cellphone’s GPS locator to meet other gays in the area — and met up with Said and Anderson-Young after they left R Place, a popular gay bar on Capitol Hill, on the night of May 31.
Police say Brown, Said and Anderson-Young drove to Anderson-Young’s house in the Leschi neighborhood, where, they say, Brown shot to death the two men and then stole Said’s car. The vehicle was later found abandoned in south Seattle.
In the charging documents, police said they linked Brown to the slayings after finding his fingerprints and three spent 9mm shell casings inside Said’s car.
No motive for the killings was listed in the charging documents.
Detectives say Said was shot multiple times in the face at close range and also in the back, as was Anderson-Young. There was no evidence of a struggle, the victims were not armed, and there`s no evidence it was motivated by robbery, drugs or any other crime.
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he fugitive suspected of the hate-crime slaying of two men he met at a Seattle gay club has been caught in New Jersey.
West Orange police tracked Ali Muhammed Brown to the 200 block of Mount Pleasant Ave. on Friday afternoon and took him into custody on warrant charges, according to the Star-Ledger newspaper.
The 29-year-old homeless man is expected to be extradited back to Washington state where he faces two counts of aggravated murder for allegedly shooting Dwone Anderson-Young, 23, and Ahmed Said, 27, execution-style on June 1. Their bodies were found in the street outside the home of one of the victims only minutes after leaving a bar together.
The motive behind their violent death, described by prosecutors as “extremely violent, senseless and seemingly unprovoked,” is not clear, but detectives are looking at the killings as a possible hate crime because Anderson-Young and Said were gay. It’s believed Brown met Said on a social-networking app such as Jack’d or Grindr to meet other gay men.
A conviction for aggravated murder can mean life in prison without parole or the death penalty, but King County prosecutors will not consider the death penalty until he’s extradited back to Seattle, according to the Seattle Times.
Brown managed to skip town and evade Seattle investigators for several weeks as they searched for him in western Washington. He headed East to his home state of New Jersey.
It wasn’t until he popped up in surveillance footage in connection with an armed robbery that detectives shifted their focus. His arrest comes more than two weeks after Brown allegedly robbed a man by gunpoint outside a Point Pleasant Beach coffee shop.
Brown was also wanted for failure to register as a sex offender. In March 2012 he pleaded guilty to communication with a minor for immoral purposes and was sentenced to one year in prison.
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