What's up with the real estate byline?
I think it was like, "Oh my god rich people can die"
Co-founder of Gokada found decapitated, dismembered inside New York condo
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Re: Co-founder of Gokada found decapitated, dismembered inside New York condo
#222Earlier quoted context omitted.
Saudi Arabia carried out an extrajudicial killing in a small, neighboring state. This was carried out in the US. And for all intents and purposes could be considered an act of war against a state that has an unlimited war chest.
Turkey has the second largest military in NATO (after US) and by quite a margin
Turkey leadership may well be sympathetic to the Saudis to some extent. Freedom of press doesn't exactly seem like their biggest concern, and they have an authoritarian Muslim ruler.
Re: Co-founder of Gokada found decapitated, dismembered inside New York condo
#223We changed the url from https://abc7chicago.com/ny-tech-entrepreneur-found-decapitat... to one with more information and no autoplaying video. If anyone can suggest a better URL, we can change it again.
As far as I'm aware, this is the article that broke the story: https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/nyc-crime/ny-headless-t.... I first saw it around 5AM Lagos time. As a bonus there's no paywall.
I am not sure but I think the coverage might come across as a bit tabloid-y however.
Re: Co-founder of Gokada found decapitated, dismembered inside New York condo
#224Looks like Gokada had investors in America, South Africa, and Dubai[1], did most of their motorcycle ride-hailing business in Nigeria, but Nigeria recently banned passenger motorcycles which was obviously a huge blow to the business. His investors probably weren't too thrilled seeing him live in a multi-million $ NYC condo shortly after their substantial investments tanked. [1] https://www.crunchbase.com/organization…
They could have abducted or blackmailed him but killing him like that makes no sense from an investors POV, they get nothing back and the risk of getting caught.
Hope he will get justice
Re: Co-founder of Gokada found decapitated, dismembered inside New York condo
#225Earlier quoted context omitted.
>Could have just as easily been a date, a hookup, a serial killer, someone perturbed at wealth inequality and better living standards. The CCTV footage would seem to make those first two somewhat less likely: "One of the law enforcement officials said a surveillance camera had captured video of Mr. Saleh in the building’s elevator with another person who was wearing a black suit and black mask." "On the video, the el…
Did the assailant come with a chainsaw? How did the saw get there? It's highly unlikely that a condo dweller would have a chainsaw sitting around.
It just says an "electric saw". Probably a reciprocating saw or something. You'd get even more attention from neighbors (who apparently heard a violent altercation, and didn't call police-- instead calling his sister??) using a chain saw.
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#226So police don't even know the cause of death, or anything else, but they do know they have video of the "killer"? I wish I were clairvoyant like this, but otherwise, may I never come under investigation from those people.
So, a guy goes into his apartment, dies in a violent altercation, and you have the video of the last person who entered and left. The video even includes some initial violence. It's a pretty reasonable assumption that this is video of the killer.
But, I guess, he could have just struggled a bit, left, and then Spiderman came in through the window and finished the job.
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#227So police don't even know the cause of death, or anything else, but they do know they have video of the "killer"? I wish I were clairvoyant like this, but otherwise, may I never come under investigation from those people.
As "His limbs and head were stuffed in bags in the living room" they do have some idea about the cause of death (e.g. that it's unlikely that he committed suicide or had a sudden heart attack). They don't know the exact mechanism of death yet, but even in the absence of anything else, cutting off the head is usually sufficient. For an investigation the video of the only person entering his apartment is perfectly good…
> Convicting the killer requires much more evidence, but that's going to be many months later, currently all the listed claims of the police seem perfectly reasonable for this stage of investigation.
Did they find who the suspect is?
Re: Co-founder of Gokada found decapitated, dismembered inside New York condo
#228Looks like Gokada had investors in America, South Africa, and Dubai[1], did most of their motorcycle ride-hailing business in Nigeria, but Nigeria recently banned passenger motorcycles which was obviously a huge blow to the business. His investors probably weren't too thrilled seeing him live in a multi-million $ NYC condo shortly after their substantial investments tanked. [1] https://www.crunchbase.com/organization…
Gokada pivoted to deliveries after that regulation was passed; it's certainly possible that while that's a decent niche, it's not enough to meet investors' expectations for their capital. If that's the motivation here it would be a huge shame, because the company has done and is doing a lot of social good.
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#229Can you imagine the maladaptive psychology required to wield a knife to calmly dismember, decapitate and butcher another human being?
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#230How horrible. Why would someone do this? I'd never heard of Gokada, it looks like such a cool thing for a developing country. I wonder what the motivation was. It doesn't seem like a market where there'd be the political pressure to assassinate someone. Maybe if there was someone trying to rethink the way pharmaceuticals or something, I could understand a CEO getting chopped into pieces by some shadowy figure, but ri…
I'll preface this by saying it is utter, pure, unmitigated speculation.
With that out of the way, as someone who's lived in NYC for decades, I would say that most stories you hear with these broad strokes involve cocaine.