Man who ‘beat mum dead in hotel room and targeted women arrested in McDonald’s stabbing’
A man accused of using an iron to beat a mother to death in a New York City hotel room has been arrested after allegedly stabbing another woman at a McDonald’s.
Raad Almansoori, 26, was identified as a suspect in 38-year-old Denisse Oleas-Arancibia’s death at SOHO 54 Hotel in Manhattan earlier this month after being caught in an alleged crime spree in Arizona.
Almansoori has targeted multiple women, including escorts, according to the NewYork Police Department on Tuesday.
He was arrested in Surprise on Sunday after admitting to stabbing a woman at a McDonald’s restaurant. At the same time, he allegedly told police that he had tried to carjack a woman in Phoenix and stabbed her.
Almansoori last Monday flew from John F Kennedy International Airport in New York to Arizona, stole a vehicle at knifepoint and then stabbed a woman multiple times at a McDonald’s, police said.
When Almansoori was processed in Arizona, the system flagged that he was wanted in connection with the Manhattan hotel room murder, according to NBC New York.
He told authorities to ‘Google the SOHO 54 Hotel’, police said.
Oleas-Arancibia’s body was discovered on February 8 by a hotel maid under a blanket and next to a bloody broken iron.
The hotel made several checks on the woman including when an employee entered and assumed she was sleeping underneath the blanket. Oleas-Arancibia’s son filed a missing persons report in Queens, where she resided, which led to her body being found.
A man’s blood-splashed pants were next to her body. Surveillance footage recorded a suspect fleeing the hotel wearing the victim’s leggings ‘distinctive pair of leggings’, police told the New York Post on Thursday.
‘We have video of the woman arriving at the location, wearing a distinct pair of leggings and later on we have a male leaving the hotel wearing the same leggings and we also have a pair of male pants in the hotel room,’ said New York Police Chief of Detective Joseph Kenny.
‘There was blood all over the pants.’
Oleas-Arancibia was a sex worker, sources had told the Daily Mail.
Almansoori has been charged with one count of attempted homicide, one count of aggravated assault and one count of theft of means in Surprise, as well as one count of robbery, one count of assault, one count of theft and one count of criminal damage in Phoenix.
He is being held without bond. Authorities are also investigating if he is linked to similar crimes in Florida and Texas.
No charges have been filed against Almansooriin the New York City hotel incident.
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