Suspect in murder of 4 was killed by angry residents- update

April 29, 2010 ⋅ 4:47 pm ⋅ Post a comment

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Residents of the Mount Lebanon village of Ktirmaya on Thursday killed the murder suspect of two grandparents and their two young grandchildren.

Lebanon’s National News Agency identified the killer as Mohammed Salim Mosallam who allegedly shot to death Youssef Abu Merhi, 75, and his wife Kawthar, 70, along with their grandchildren Zeina, 7, and Amneh, 9.

It said Mosallam was beaten up while he was reenacting the crime for security forces. He was then rushed to a hospital in Siblin by the police .

But the locals chased the killer to Siblin hospital and killed him. Then they dragged his body out, tied it to a car and drove to Ktirmaya’s main square.

There, the residents stripped the killer of his clothing, tied a metal wire around his neck and hung him on a pole.

The bullet-riddled bodies were discovered Wednesday by the two girls’ mother, Rana Youssef Abu Merhi, as she returned home from work.

The bodies were lying on the floor of Youssef Abu Merhi’s house in Ktirmaya in the Iqlim al-Kharroub province of Mount Lebanon.

Rana, a teacher at a nearby school, is divorced from the father, Mohammed Mustafa al-Rawwas, who is said to be living abroad.

Police reported that a knife and clothes with blood on them were found in the suspect’s residence.

Update: ISF officers disciplined

Internal Security Forces (ISF) Director General Ashraf Rifi took disciplinary measures against several ISF members over the incident in the village of Ketermaya in Iqlim al-Kharroub province of Mount Lebanon, where residents attacked and killed the suspect in Wednesday’s murder in the village following his arrest, National News Agency (NNA) has reported

Rifi punished the officers for “making a grave error in the judgment of the field situation and for failing to ensure the protection of the murder suspect,” the NNA added.

Rifi condemned the murder of the four victims and offered his condolences to their relatives.

This comes after the National News Agency (NNA) reported on Wednesday that Youssef Abu Merhe, his wife, Kawthar, and their nine and seven-year old granddaughters were found dead in their home in the village.

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Constantin

What a horror story whether from the killer who killed 2 children and 2 elderly people or from the barbaric reaction of the people. Where were the police to prevent such a barbaric reaction on this murderer.
People do not give the justice system a chance to function normally, they just kill with “their own hands” and make a “parade” of the corpse, and hang the corpse in a public square….
I feel like I am watching “Conan the Barbarian”! Where are we in Lebanon or in Barbaristan?

It is just scary to live with people with so much aggression and capable of doing such a barbarian act. Ok the murderer is guilty and was going to be tride and probably sentenced to death, but I am stunned by the people’s reaction…
roz

he deserves it.
lebnani

They are Barbarian, murderer and more.
Nabih

the guy was not tried and convicted, how would they feel if the DNA came negative and he was not the killer!!!!and if he’s the killer, we have a court system to punish criminals but after being convicted not before. does not reflect good on the people of that town or the security who supposed to protect him until the truth is revealed.
fauzia

This is unbelievable !The crime was a horror ,and what the locals did was horrific!!
jaerth

It is the Lebanese Gov. responsibility for his death and the ppl who did it, but gess what no one will be arrested. We do say we are in the 21st century, yes suuuurrrrrrrrrreeeeeeeeeeee 21st century B.C.
Walid Khouri

Anybody knows the motives behind the murder? Well I guess now we’ll never know since the killer is dead and dead people tell no tales.
Louay Faour

OH COME ON, HES A BARBARIAN, A MANIAC, AND A SICK MURDERER !!?

YOU WOULD FEEL LIKE DOING EXACTLY THE SAME THING IF THIS HAPPENED TO UR FAMILY GOD FORBID !!

DON’T JUST PUT THE SHAME ON LEBANON, THIS PROBABLY HAPPENS DAILY IN THE WEST
Danny Bou-Maroun

in the west it’s much worse. they probably wuldved raped the guy before and AFTER killing him. Then they would have killed each other cuz they would be fighting over who gets the guy’s pocket money or something!
jaerth

danny where do you live?
Lebanone

He deserves more than this. This criminal killed 4 people . 2 litlle girls what they did to him? Kitermaya had done the right thing.
jaerth

why do we have court system then?
Sue in Sydney

I agree he deserved it the DOG may he rot in hell.
allan

i was moving my family back to lebanon in the summer ,which i have bought a house in ashrafeih;but man after seeing the ketrmaya masacre ,man that move is over.just wanted to know what the hell happened to the lebanease people ,never saw anything like this
Tony A

ya walid,

we got more cave people than humans on this site. you got Sue from sydney and whoever else chanting diediedie so obviously australia hasn’t taught sue anything about our legal system.

everybody else’s arguments is well he killed all 4. how do we know the father wasn’t raping him everyday? or the mother was locking him up in a closet all day?

i apologise for sounding cold even tohugh my past comments prove otherwise but, people in a “deliverance” type town does not excuse them from being civilised in situations of extreme anger and madness.

i do believe that contrary to Danny’s false statement that if this was to happen in the west, the “mob” would be also broght to justice and most likely given suspended sentences with community services and possible house arrets if NOT jail time.

either way, your statement danny is wrong as i’ve lived in the west most of my life starting with england 4 years, US 14 years and canada 15 years and i don’t recall ever seeing anybody except for raped women who take the law into their own hands and actually get acquitted in very few cases as many of them have ended up in the slammer.
N.G.

yesss, sure , but it was better to let the justic do it !!! to be killed by the justice hands
N.G.

dearest , yess its nothing and u can’t compare this crime and the western or the SA#AIDA crimes right and they would do more then that i guess
Mo

Danny you’ve been watching too many movies my friend.

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