US EditionSuspect in horrific double homicide of elderly NYC couple apprehended
- On Monday, 76-year-old Frank Olton and 77-year-old Maureen Olton were found dead in their Bellerose, Queens home after a fire engulfed the residence at 87-86 254th Street.
- The suspect, 42-year-old Jamel McGriff, allegedly gained entry by asking to charge his phone and then tortured the couple for nearly five hours before setting the home ablaze.
- Police identified McGriff after surveillance footage captured him selling two cellphones in the Bronx on Monday and monitored his use of the victims' stolen credit cards.
- McGriff, who served 16 years for a 2006 robbery and failed to register as a sex offender last year, was arrested Wednesday evening in Times Square after a citywide manhunt.
- NYPD Commissioner Tisch thanked detectives for apprehending McGriff and urged residents to avoid letting unknown individuals into their homes, emphasizing the dangerous nature of the suspect's tactics.
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An elderly couple was tortured, stabbed and killed in New York, and police have arrested the suspect in the double murder.
Suspect in arson stab slay of elderly Queens couple bought ticket to children’s religious movie just before capture
As the manhunt closed in on the sex offender parolee accused of murdering an elderly Queens couple and setting their home on fire, he bought a ticket to an animated religious children’s movie, using the victims’ stolen credit card, a police source said Thursday. Jamel McGriff slipped into Manhattan’s Regal Union Square movie theater about 3:30 p.m. Wednesday and purchased a ticket for “Light of the World,” a feature film about Jesus Christ, acco…
NYC double murder suspect got into struggle with Verizon worker during attempted robbery weeks before gruesome crime: ‘Wish I had actually dropped his a–‘
The career criminal, Jamel McGriff, accused of killing a Queens couple Frank and Maureen Olton, allegedly tried to rob a Verizon store weeks before the double homicide
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