TWO GAY MEN MURDERED BY STRANGER THEY MET ON 'GRINDR OR JACK'D, SUSPECT ALI MUHAMMED BROWN ALSO WANTED IN NEW JERSEY

Ali Muhammed Brown

Earlier this month it was reported that police in Seattle were searching for 30-year-old Ali Muhammed Brown, the man they have charged with two counts of aggravated first-degree murder in connection with a brutal hate crime they believe was premeditated and arranged on a gay social networking app like Grindr.

Well they are still looking for him.

The bodies of two gay men, 27-year-old Ahmed Said and 23-year-old Dwone Anderson-Young were found in the early morning hours of Tuesday not far from Seattle’s Capitol Hill gayborhood. According to police, they were both executed by Brown no more than 17 minutes after they had picked him up via a social networking app near a popular gay bar in town.

Both victims were shot in the head and police say there was no evidence of a struggle, robbery, exchange of drugs or any other type of crime. Neither of the victims had a criminal history, leading police to believe the crime was motivated exclusively by hate.

“It is evident that the murders were premeditated and unprovoked and part of a common scheme or plan,” Senior Deputy Prosecutor Wyman Yip wrote in the court documents, obtained by KIRO TV. “The evidence from the crime scene, Said’s vehicle, and the autopsies suggest that the victims were essentially executed.”
Friends of Said and Anderson-Young told police they had been hanging out among friends at R Place earlier in the night. The two left shortly after they told friends they were “meeting a friend outside the club,” a man who was later identified as Brown. One of Said’s friends told police he didn’t believe Said had ever met Brown previously, and that he was “creeped out” by the man when he saw the three get into Said’s car together.




The car Said had picked Brown up in was later found in South Seattle, the interior covered in blood, including an incriminating bloody palm print belonging to Brown in the back seat. Police believe Brown may now be in New Jersey, and is possibly connected to a robbery in the Point Pleasant Beach area.

Brown has been charged with two counts of aggravated first-degree murder, a sentence that could get him

Victims Ahmed Said, 27, and Dwone Anderson-Young, 23.

the death penalty if convicted. Seattle police have also identified Brown as a convicted sex offender, and want him in connection to a third homicide in Washington. They’re urging anyone with more information to call Crime Stoppers at (206) 343-2020.

Though court documents don’t directly implicate Grindr as the app used by the victims in this case, a friend of Said’s is quoted telling police officers that Said was texting frequently on “an app like Grindr or Jack’d” before his murder.

Muhammad is also wanted in New Jersey for robbery and an attempted carjacking.

On Sunday, a 46-year-old man in Point Pleasant Beach, New Jersey, was robbed at gunpoint in front of a coffee shop. Police said Brown took the man’s wallet and keys before fleeing on foot. The victim wasn’t hurt.

An Ocean County judge issued a $500,000 arrest warrant for Brown. Police say Brown is familiar with the East Orange area of New Jersey. The New Jersey case details come from WOBM radio.

The station also reports that Brown is wanted for a third homicide in Washington, but it’s is not clear which case.

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