Gokada Founder, Fahim Saleh, Murdered in New York

Fahim Saleh, the founder of popular motorbike hailing startup, Gokada, has been murdered in his apartment at 265 East Houston Street in New York on Tuesday, according to The New York Times.

The 33-year old technology entrepreneur was reportedly murdered by assailants who dismembered and scattered his body parts in different locations within his luxury apartment in Manhattan’s Lower East Side.

Homicide detectives said Saleh’s torso, limbs, head and an electric saw used in dismembered his body parts were found in his apartment on Tuesday, adding that the assailants made efforts to clean up evidence of what happened. However, the earlier arrival of his sister to check up on him likely forced them to flee through the back door.

Saleh’s sister discovered his dismembered body around 3:30 p.m and quickly called the police who couldn’t identify him immediately.

According to the detectives, the saw was still plugged into an electric socket when the police arrived, “leading detectives to investigate whether the arrival of Saleh’s sister at the condo might have interrupted the killing and prompted the killer to flee through another exit,” the New York Times quoted the law enforcement officials as saying.

The officials said a surveillance camera had captured a video of Saleh with a person who was wearing a black suit and black mask in the building’s elevator. The masked person followed him closely into the apartment before the two started struggling immediately.

The sister is said to have arrived at the scene shortly after. There is a second way out of the apartment through a service entrance.

Fahim Saleh was born in Saudi Arabia after his Bangladeshi parents immigrated to the country.

In 2018, Saleh started Gokada in Lagos, Nigeria and raised $5.3 million from investors in June 2019.