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would have done such a thing,” said Virginia Scott-Bey Kage, whose 15-year-old son, Anthony, was stabbed Aug. 3 as he jogged in Leesburg. Leesburg Police Chief Joseph
R. Price said Thursday that he was confident that the attacks were racially motivated. “My be- lief is he selected the victims in Leesburg based on the color of their skin,” Price said. That doesn’t jibe with the way friends and family remember Abuelazam. “I just can’t see him doing this,” said Paul Lozinsky, 39, who worked with Abuelazam at the Piedmont Behavioral Health Center, now called North Spring Behavioral Healthcare, in Leesburg in the early 2000s. “I can’t believe he’s the type of guy who would do this. He was a nice guy to me. We got along together.” But Lozinsky and others said
that although they found Abuela- zam friendly, they weren’t really friends. His private life was a mystery. Even Lozinky’s brother Daniel, whom Abuelazam asked to testify at his first divorce pro- ceeding, said they didn’t socialize outside work and had not kept in touch. Their chatter, he said, was always casual. “Wow. Maybe a lot has
changed,” said Daniel Lozinsky, 37. “I really didn’t know that side of him. He seemed like a caring guy to me.” Patrons and colleagues at the
Michigan liquor store where Abuelazam most recently worked said nothing seemed unusual about the man behind the count- er.
Anonymous tip
Authorities said that an anony- mous tip to a Michigan police hotline Wednesday led them to Abuelazam, who apparently sus- pected authorities were on to him. He stashed his distinctive dark-green Chevy S-10 blazer be- hind a shed at a Michigan home and hopped a flight to Lexington, Ky., a law enforcement source said. From there, he flew to Atlan- ta, where he was heading to Tel Aviv. The string of unprovoked at- tacks began May 24 when 31- year-old David Motley was stabbed to death in Flint. There were two stabbings in June, but the violence escalated late last month. Police didn’t link the cases at first, partly because the attacks were random and oc- curred in different jurisdictions. But eventually they saw a pattern. Police think the attacker went to Virginia early this month. On Aug. 3, 15-year-old Anthony Kage was jogging in Leesburg when a man stabbed him in the back without saying a word. Two days later and a short dis-
tance away, a 67-year-old man sit- ting on the stoop outside his apartment was stabbed by a per- son thought by police to be the same assailant. Last Friday, a 19- year-old man was in a Leesburg parking lot when someone asked for help fixing his Chevrolet Blaz- er. When the teenager ap- proached, the man struck him on the head with a hammer. That attack was recorded by a
security camera, providing inves- tigators with a break in the case: an image of both the suspect and vehicle. Leesburg detectives no- ticed similarities to the Michigan cases. Authorities put out a public plea for help in finding the Blazer. A source said the anonymous
tipster, acting on information that included the vehicle descrip- tion, led police to someone associ- ated with Abuelazam. That led police to the liquor store where he worked in Michigan. Co-workers told police he hadn’t been at work for a while because he was visit- ing family in Virginia. A traffic stop in Arlington
County last week also helped au- thorities tie the case together. Abuelazam was stopped on Wal- ter Reed Drive at 1:15 a.m. Aug. 5. When he was pulled over, Arling- ton police saw that he had an out- standing misdemeanor assault warrant from Leesburg. That warrant had nothing to do with the stabbings, and Arlington po- lice had no reason to suspect Abuelazam as the serial stabber, spokeswoman Crystal Nosal said, pointing out that there was not yet a lookout for the Blazer. Abuelazam appeared before a
magistrate on the outstanding warrant, police said. He was re- leased on his own recognizance. Just after 6 a.m. that day, police think he approached a Leesburg man sitting on an apartment stoop and, without saying a word, stabbed him in the back. Arlington police noted the con- tents of the SUV and found a knife and a hammer.
Minor offenses None of the people in the Unit-
ed States closest to Abuelazam would say much about him. His sister in Leesburg declined to comment. Officials at the mental
Elias Abuela- zam, 33, is suspected of attacking 18 people in Michigan, Virginia and Ohio.
facility where he worked did not return phone calls. Media reports and law enforcement sources in- dicated that his family is from
Ramlah, in central Israel. His mother lives there; his father is dead.
One of Abuelazam’s former mothers-in-law, Kimberly Hirth, said her daughter and Abuelazam were married for three years be- fore “she divorced him” in 2007. Asked about Abuelazam’s be-
havior during the marriage, Hirth, who lives in Crowley, Tex., near Fort Worth, said repeatedly, “He was just the sweetest guy.”
She said Abuelazam was separat- ed from her daughter and living in Leesburg “when she sent him the divorce papers” from Texas in 2007. Her daughter, Jessica Nimitz, who has remarried and lives in Texas, declined to be interviewed. That marriage was at least his second. Divorce records in Fair- fax show that Abuelazam married Dawn Costello in Virginia in 1997. They separated in 2000 and were
divorced in 2002. At the former Piedmont Behav-
ioral Health Center, Abuelazam was a “mental health technician,” according to public records relat- ed to a workers’ compensation claim that he filed but lost. Abuelazam had a series of mi-
nor offenses in Northern Virginia, according to court records. In 2008, he was convicted of lying on a handgun permit application and served about a month in jail,
A5 Ex-mother-in-law says stabbing suspect was ‘just the sweetest guy’
said Loudoun Commonwealth’s Attorney James Plowman. He said Abuelazam failed to disclose a 1995 fraud charge from Califor- nia.
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Staff writers Paul Duggan, Mary Pat Flaherty and Debbi Wilgoren, correspondent Joel Greenberg in Israel and staff researcher Meg Smith contributed to this report.
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