Ramada Inn guest killed employee, injured co-worker in New Jersey shooting, cops say

The employee at the Ramada Inn in Essex County who survived a double shooting at the hotel last week told police that a guest from the previous night fatally shot him in the chest. shot his colleague in the head.

Mohammad Sahariar, 28, was pronounced dead in the hotel manager’s office on Two Bridges Road in Fairfield around 1:35 p.m. on Oct. 4, a little more than an hour after he and the other employee been shot, according to an affidavit. of probable cause.

Several .380-caliber shell casings were found in the principal’s office, including one under Sahariar’s body, police said in the affidavit.

Detectives found, also under the body, a printout of a room in the name of Tyrone Malcom, 39, who had stayed at the hotel with his girlfriend the night before, according to the affidavit.

As the surviving employee was placed in an ambulance, he told police he had been “shot by an individual named ‘Malcom Tyrone,'” the affidavit states.

Before the shootings, video surveillance showed Malcolm arriving in a white car belonging to the girlfriend, parking in the parking lot and entering the hotel, where he spoke to Sahariar out of camera view at the front desk, authorities said .

The video then shows Sahariar accompanying Malcom to the principal’s office, which is also out of view of the cameras, authorities said. As they walk, Sahariar is seen holding a piece of white paper that was later found under his body and had Malcolm’s name written on it, authorities said.

On Monday, detectives interviewed Malcom’s girlfriend who told them that she and Malcom had stayed at the hotel the night before the shooting and went out to breakfast the next day, authorities said.

When they returned, the woman went to the bedroom and Malcom went to the front desk, the girlfriend told detectives, authorities said.

Malcom returned to the room a short time later and told the woman to pack her bags because she had to leave, authorities said.

“We have to go!” Come on, we have to go! Malcolm told the woman as they got into the car, according to the affidavit.

The girlfriend told police she “drove around for a while, following T. Malcom’s instructions.”

Malcolm, of Middletown, New York, is charged with murder, attempted murder, unlawful possession of a weapon and possession of a weapon for an unlawful purpose. Malcom does not have a license to own or possess a firearm, authorities said.

No motive was provided for the shooting, but the victim and shooter were unknown. Detectives said the investigation involved the seizure of three mobile phones and a tablet.

Malcom was arrested Wednesday at his home in New York by members of the United States Marshal’s Fugitive Task Force and detectives from the Essex County Prosecutor’s Office.

Information from an attorney for Malcom, who is awaiting extradition to New Jersey, was not available Thursday.