“We don’t know anything” he said, through the closed apartment door.Īt a news conference Wednesday, Grewal said he would not comment on the assailants’ motives. Harriet said she had not seen Graham in about a year and that she knew of no connection to the hate group.Ī man who answered a knock at Graham’s mother’s apartment declined to comment. “Always had a nice conversation to keep.” “Very nice person,” said Alice Harriet, a neighbor who has known Graham’s family for decades. I’m trying to get more information.”įrancine Graham grew up in the Manhattanville Houses, a public-housing project in West Harlem where her mother still lives, according to neighbors.
“I didn’t know she was part of any of that. “I don’t know what’s happening,” Graham, 52, said, sounding distressed. Her brother, Frederick Graham, said he was not aware of any links to the movement. It was unclear whether Graham also had ties to the Black Hebrew Israelites. She added that the movement has not been known for committing mass acts of violence. “They mostly trade in anti-Semitism,” said Heidi Beirich, the director of the Intelligence Project at the Southern Poverty Law Center. While the exact beliefs of the Black Hebrew Israelites vary among the groups associated with the movement, followers generally believe that the 12 tribes of Israel defined in the Old Testament are different ethnic groups, or nations, and that white people are not among them. He said investigators were still reviewing that information. The law enforcement official could not provide more details about Anderson’s online posts or where they had been published. Investigators also found a live pipe bomb inside the vehicle that was an operable explosive device, officials said Wednesday. The document, which was described as brief and “rambling,” suggested no clear motive for the shooting. Investigators also found a manifesto-style note inside the assailants’ van, the law enforcement official and another official familiar with the case said. An assailant had links to the Black Hebrew Israelites. The Jersey City police officer who was killed was identified Tuesday as Detective Joe Seals, a 15-year law enforcement veteran and a father of five. One other person inside the store was wounded but managed to escape, according to Grewal. They have been identified as Mindel Ferencz, 33, who ran the market with her husband Moshe Deutch, 24, a rabbinical student who lives in Brooklyn and Miguel Douglas, 49, who was believed to have worked at the store. Grewal.Īmong those killed Tuesday were three bystanders who were inside the store when the shootout began. It has been described as a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center, a legal advocacy group that tracks such movements.Īuthorities also suspected that the two assailants may have been involved in a separate killing in neighboring Bayonne, New Jersey, according to New Jersey’s attorney general, Gurbir S. The Black Hebrew Israelites have no connection with mainstream Judaism.
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