August 28, 1976 - Elias Abuelazam
Over a roughly three-month period in 2010, a series of stabbings across Michigan — targeting Black men in particular — left five dead and many others injured before an arrest was made at an Atlanta airport. The attacks, attributed to Abuelazam, were marked by their frequency and apparent racial targeting, with investigators linking him to eighteen incidents before he was apprehended while attempting to board a flight to Israel.
From Wikipedia
Elias Abuelazam (; Arabic: الياس أبو العظام; Hebrew: אליאס אבו אל עזאם; born August 29, 1976), also known as Elias Abullazam, is an Arab-Israeli convicted murderer, and a suspect of serial killings and stabbings with a racial motive. He is suspected in a string of eighteen stabbing attacks from May to August 2010 which resulted in five deaths. Most of the alleged attacks occurred in Genesee County, Michigan (particularly in and around Flint). Five stabbings occurred elsewhere: three in Leesburg, Virginia, one in Toledo, Ohio, and one in his native home in Ramla, Israel. All of his alleged victims were described as "small-framed" (i.e., short, thin, non-muscular) men — most of them African Americans.
During the investigation, Michigan media dubbed Abuelazam the "Flint Serial Slasher" and the "Flint Serial Stabber". He was 6 feet 5 inches (1.96 m) and weighed 280 pounds (130 kg) at the time of his booking. Abuelazam has been convicted in one of the murders, that of 49-year-old Arnold Minor, which occurred on August 2, 2010, in Flint.
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