Deciphering the horrific murder that shocked the Haredi community in the US: Seven suspects have been arrested in recent days on suspicion of involvement in the murder of the late Haredi businessman Menachem Stark. Two of them have already been released. Since yesterday, a hunt has been underway for another suspect - who has not yet been captured.
Police released a statement saying that Kendall Felix, 26, a resident of the Caribbean islands, had confessed to the murder.
• One of the suspects in the Stark murder confessed during interrogation: I was the driver
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Sources in the New York Attorney General's Office said that the suspect implicated himself in the act, admitted to acting as a driver, and described the incident as a failed robbery attempt.
He claims they kidnapped the victim from his office in order to rob him of money, and when he started fighting them, they beat him to death inside the vehicle. Then they went hysterical and decided to burn the body and dispose of it in one of the garbage cans.
According to the same suspect, a contractor who worked for the late Menachem Stark planned the robbery and carried it out together with his workers.
The other four suspects may be released this morning (New York time). It is unclear what restrictions, if any, will be imposed on them. According to suspect Felix, two of them were the hijackers seen on security cameras, and the other two were the planners, along with the contractor.
Throughout the day yesterday, a hunt was underway for the other suspect - the contractor.
A source in the prosecutor's office was able to tell us that there is a lot of anger in the office against the New York Police Department - due to the premature publication of the arrests.
As far as is known, a police press conference will be held this morning (New York time).
As you may recall, the affair that caused great shock among the Haredi community in the United States began on Thursday, January 1, at the end of the month of Tevet, late at night, when the late Menachem Stark, a Satmar Hasid, a resident of the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn, was kidnapped by unknown assailants as he left his office in their neighborhood. His wife, who saw that he was hesitant to return home, called the volunteer guards and the police, who began an extensive search for him.
After a week, the police found his body, burned and bruised, in a trash can on Long Island.
