HomeHAMZA ALI - 7 months - / Charged: Ummad Rushdi - Upper Darby, PA
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HAMZA ALI - 7 months - / Charged: Ummad Rushdi - Upper Darby, PA
by twinkletoes Wed Aug 28, 2013 4:36 am
Pennsylvania man charged with murdering girlfriend’s missing baby
Ummad Rushdi told police 'You will never find that baby.' Upper Darby cops decided to press on without the body of 7-month-old Hamza Ali, who disappeared from the Philadelphia suburb on Aug. 4.
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
Tuesday, August 27, 2013, 2:00 PM
Robert J.Gurecki/Delaware County Times
Ummad Rushdi now faces murder charges along with kidnapping in the disappearance of his girlfriend’s baby.
A Pennsylvania man accused of snatching his girlfriend’s baby boy now faces murder charges.
Police had previously charged Ummad Rushdi, 30, with kidnapping as they searched for the body of 7-month-old Hamza Ali.
The little boy has never been found and Rushdi told police he never will be.
“You will never find that baby,” he said, according to an affidavit. “I am sorry for what I did.”
Upper Darby Police Superintendent Michael Chitwood said Rushdi claims Hamza’s death was an accident, but refused to reveal the location of the body.
“His statement today was the baby can’t be retrieved — that’s his statement to detectives,” Chitwood said. “Obviously, without a body, we believe he murdered the baby and disposed of the body so we can't find out the cause of death.”
Rushdi is accused of swiping Hamza on Aug. 4 from a house in the Philadelphia suburb of Upper Darby where he and the child’s mother, 20-year-old Zainab Gaal, were spending the weekend. He later told his brother he shook the baby to death and hid the tiny corpse, court documents said. He made a similar confession shortly after his arrest, according to an affidavit released on Tuesday.
Handout via Delaware County Daily Times
Authorities have never found the body of Hamza Ali, and his mother’s boyfriend says they never will.
Rushdi, who was convicted in 2012 of making terroristic threats, told police “he could only be judged by God and ‘not the system,’” the affidavit said.
He admitted killing the crying boy during an Aug. 8 jailhouse confession, police said.
“I play around with him roughly,” the affidavit says.
He tried to administer CPR when the boy stopped breathing.
“I wrapped him in a sheet and put him in the back of the car and buried him,” he said.
Rushdi said he left the boy under a pile of sticks near his home in York, but later hid him somewhere else.
Rushdi had left his brother’s car near Columbia the day Hamza disappeared. He told police he hitched a ride with a church bus and went on to attend a Sunday school service near York. Once at the church, he fell to his knees and began to cry.
Chris Dunn/AP
Police have searched woods surrounding Ummad Rushdi’s house, but they have yet to find the body of his girlfriend’s baby.
Gaal said Rushdi had previously demanded they take Hamza to Gaal’s mother’s house in Maine.
“If not I will throw him off a bridge before I get there,” he said, according to Gaal.
Five minutes later, Gaal said, Rushdi told her “I can get away murder.”
The new charges against Rushdi include kidnapping to facilitate a felony, kidnapping to inflict injury or terror, concealment of a child’s whereabouts, tampering with evidence and abuse of a corpse.
Police plan to go forward with the case even without Hamza’s body.
“When I get out of jail,” Rushdi told police. “I’m going to dig him up and I’m going to bury him in my backyard.”
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/pa-murder-suspect-find-baby-article-1.1438331#ixzz2dD9y7aYk
Ummad Rushdi told police 'You will never find that baby.' Upper Darby cops decided to press on without the body of 7-month-old Hamza Ali, who disappeared from the Philadelphia suburb on Aug. 4.
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
Tuesday, August 27, 2013, 2:00 PM
Robert J.Gurecki/Delaware County Times
Ummad Rushdi now faces murder charges along with kidnapping in the disappearance of his girlfriend’s baby.
A Pennsylvania man accused of snatching his girlfriend’s baby boy now faces murder charges.
Police had previously charged Ummad Rushdi, 30, with kidnapping as they searched for the body of 7-month-old Hamza Ali.
The little boy has never been found and Rushdi told police he never will be.
“You will never find that baby,” he said, according to an affidavit. “I am sorry for what I did.”
Upper Darby Police Superintendent Michael Chitwood said Rushdi claims Hamza’s death was an accident, but refused to reveal the location of the body.
“His statement today was the baby can’t be retrieved — that’s his statement to detectives,” Chitwood said. “Obviously, without a body, we believe he murdered the baby and disposed of the body so we can't find out the cause of death.”
Rushdi is accused of swiping Hamza on Aug. 4 from a house in the Philadelphia suburb of Upper Darby where he and the child’s mother, 20-year-old Zainab Gaal, were spending the weekend. He later told his brother he shook the baby to death and hid the tiny corpse, court documents said. He made a similar confession shortly after his arrest, according to an affidavit released on Tuesday.
Handout via Delaware County Daily Times
Authorities have never found the body of Hamza Ali, and his mother’s boyfriend says they never will.
Rushdi, who was convicted in 2012 of making terroristic threats, told police “he could only be judged by God and ‘not the system,’” the affidavit said.
He admitted killing the crying boy during an Aug. 8 jailhouse confession, police said.
“I play around with him roughly,” the affidavit says.
He tried to administer CPR when the boy stopped breathing.
“I wrapped him in a sheet and put him in the back of the car and buried him,” he said.
Rushdi said he left the boy under a pile of sticks near his home in York, but later hid him somewhere else.
Rushdi had left his brother’s car near Columbia the day Hamza disappeared. He told police he hitched a ride with a church bus and went on to attend a Sunday school service near York. Once at the church, he fell to his knees and began to cry.
Chris Dunn/AP
Police have searched woods surrounding Ummad Rushdi’s house, but they have yet to find the body of his girlfriend’s baby.
Gaal said Rushdi had previously demanded they take Hamza to Gaal’s mother’s house in Maine.
“If not I will throw him off a bridge before I get there,” he said, according to Gaal.
Five minutes later, Gaal said, Rushdi told her “I can get away murder.”
The new charges against Rushdi include kidnapping to facilitate a felony, kidnapping to inflict injury or terror, concealment of a child’s whereabouts, tampering with evidence and abuse of a corpse.
Police plan to go forward with the case even without Hamza’s body.
“When I get out of jail,” Rushdi told police. “I’m going to dig him up and I’m going to bury him in my backyard.”
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/pa-murder-suspect-find-baby-article-1.1438331#ixzz2dD9y7aYk
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