The OC District Attorney’s office has charged Ramy Fahim, the 26-year old Irvine man arrested for committing a double murder in Anaheim last week, has been charged with two counts of murder, and two enhancements each of lying in wait, multiple murders, and the personal use of a deadly weapon.
The special circumstances of lying in wait and multiple murders make him eligible for the death penalty.
On April 19, Anaheim police officers responded to reports of an assault in progress in an apartment in Stadium House apartments near Angel Stadium.
The police found Fahim inside the apartment with the two victims, and later arrested him on suspicion of their murders. He is accused of stabbing his co-worker, 23-year-old Griffin Cuomo, to death and then stabbing Cuomo’s roommate, 23-year-old Jonathan Bahm, to death in their Katella Avenue apartment in Anaheim at around 6:30 a.m. on April 19, 2022.
Cuomo and Fahim worked together at an Orange County wealth management company.
Fahim is currently being held without bail at the Intake Release Center. He is scheduled to be arraigned on May 6, 2022 at the North Justice Center in Fullerton.
According to the OCDA, a building security guard encountered Fahim on the roof of the apartment building the night before the building, hours before the murders took place. Fahim was seen on the same floor of the victims’ apartment the morning of the murders.
“These young men were just starting to live out their dreams and find their places in the world. But an intruder who stalked them and then slashed them to death in their own home interrupted those dreams,” said Orange County District Attorney Todd Spitzer. “The callous way that two young lives were ended cannot be ignored and we will do everything we can to ensure justice is served.”
