NYPD issues dire warning as manhunt launched for career criminal with felonies going back 30 years, yet walks free doing daily home invasions. He forced his way into the home, tortured the occupants for 5 hours tied in the basement, then set the house on fire.
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NYPD issues dire warning as manhunt launched for ‘armed’ career criminal accused of torching, killing elderly NYC couple
Police
launched a massive manhunt Tuesday for a violent sex offender and
career criminal sought in the horrific Queens fire that killed the
elderly parents of an FDNY paramedic.
Jamel McGriff, 42, an ex-con on
parole with a string of career busts, has been identified as a suspect
in the vicious deaths of 78-year-old Maureen Olton and her husband,
Frank Thomas Olton, 76, who was found bound to a pole in the basement
with multiple stab wounds after their Bellerose home was torched Monday,
police and law enforcement sources said.
NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch said McGriff is “armed and dangerous” and has a 30-year-long criminal record.
“The
suspect’s MO is to go door to door, asking for some kind of assistance
until he can gain entry,” Tisch told reporters Tuesday.
“Investigators
for the NYPD and our partners on the Regional Fugitive Task Force are
working around the clock to locate and to apprehend Mr. McGriff,” she
said. “We appreciate the public’s and the media’s assistance here.”
Tisch
said the suspected killer entered the 254th Street home through a
backdoor around 10:15 a.m. Monday – and was caught on surveillance
footage leaving after terrorizing the elderly victims for nearly five
hours.
Frank Olton had been doused with a flammable liquid and set on
fire, while both victims were stabbed multiple times, sources said.
Just 14 minutes later, fire alarms went off and firefighters responded to the blaze.
Maureen
Olton’s body was found on the first floor, and her husband in the
basement, where he had been chained and lifeless before the fire was
set, the sources said.
Tragically, police said their first responder son was alerted to the blaze at his parents’ home.
Jamel McGriff, a career criminal and violent sex offender, is wanted for
the violent double murder of an elderly couple on Monday
>Maureen
Olton, 78, and her husband Frank Thomas Olton, 76, had both been
stabbed multiple times, and he had been tied to a pole and doused in
flammable liquid, before their house was set alight.
NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch said the ex-convict is "armed and dangerous" and has a criminal record dating back 30 years. Investigators for the NYPD and our partners on the Regional Fugitive Task Force are working around the clock to locate and to apprehend Mr McGriff. McGriff was still on parole after his release from prison in 2023.
Since his release he has failed to register as a sex offender and is the lead suspect in at least two robberies in New York
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