Egyptian minister’s son faces murder charges over US double homicide

Nabila Makram, Egypt’s Minister of Immigration and Expatriate Affairs, is accused of cold-blooded murder in the April killings of two men in California.

Ramy Hani Mounir Fahim, of Irvine, California, has also been charged with lying in wait and personal use of a deadly weapon, after a coworker and his roommate were stabbed to death in their Anaheim apartment early last month.

According to officials, Fahim is eligible for the death penalty due of the unusual conditions of “lying in wait” and several murders.

According to police, Fahim attacked and killed his coworker, Griffin Cuomo, 23, and subsequently killed Cuomo’s roommate, Jonathan Bahm, 23, in their Anaheim apartment at 6:30 a.m. on April 19, 2022.

Cuomo and Fahim worked together at Pence Wealth Management in Orange County. Fahim worked as a research assistant at the firm as a data engineer.

He is being held without bond at the Intake Release Center and was prosecuted on May 6 at the Fullerton North Justice Center.

According to authorities, Fahim was discovered on the apartment complex roof around midnight on April 18, just hours before the murders. On the morning of the killings, Fahim was observed on the same floor as the victims’ apartment.

According to Orange County District Attorney Todd Spitzer, Fahim was still inside the victims’ apartment when Anaheim police arrived to a 911 emergency call.

“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,” Spitzer said.

“The callous way that two young lives were ended cannot be ignored and we will do everything we can to ensure justice is served.”

Egypt’s Minister of Immigration and Expatriate Affairs, Nabila Makram, issued a statement on Facebook on Saturday, saying that she and her family are going through “a severe ordeal.”

In the statement, the minister’s first since Fahim was arrested on April 22, Makram called for prayers for her son and the two victims and said that she will continue her duties as minister.

“My family and I are under severe distress following my son being charged with murder in the US. This charge is in front of a US court and a sentence has not yet been issued,” she said.

“Doing my duties as a minister in the Egyptian government does not conflict at all with me being a believing mother who bravely faces the plight of her son. Whatever the consequences, as a minister, I take full responsibility for my position and the requirements of working with it, and I clearly differentiate between what is personal and what is public.”

Fahim will remain in custody until a bail review hearing is scheduled for June 17.

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