(WWJ) An Oakland County man is facing more than a dozen felony charges in connection with the murders of a little boy and two adults from Warren.
A task force including Warren police, Michigan State Police and ATF agents arrested 37-year-old Nicholas Raad Bahri at his parents' house in West Bloomfield last Friday, a week after the bodies of 6-year-old Tai-rez Moore and 28-year-old Isis Rimson were discovered at a home on Otis Street in Warren.
Police said the two were murdered "execution-style."
"The house had been ransacked and in the basement they found the woman and the boy,” Warren Police Commissioner Bill Dwyer said. “Both were killed by shotgun blasts to the head.”
The body of Moore's father, 31-year-old Tukoyo Moore, was found in a burned out car in Detroit the same day, the three deaths setting off an intense, multi-jurisdictional investigation.
Now Macomb County prosecutors are asking federal prosecutors to look at the case to determine if Bahri could possibly face the death penalty.
“This was all over drugs and money,” said Dwyer, who described this as "truly evil, unthinkable" crime, and one of the worst he has seen in his long career in law enforcement.
"Nicholas Bahri. Barbarian. Child Killer. and he will serve his time," Dwyer said. "I have talked to the U.S. attorney also, Mr. Schneider, Matthew Schneider. I've talked about this before as far as possibly taking this person under criminal capital offense. Mr. Schneider is monitoring the case very closely."
Bahri was arraigned via video in Warren Tuesday on 15 felony counts, including three counts of first degree premeditated murder.
He has a lengthy criminal record, with convictions in Wayne and Oakland counties for drug possession, breaking and entering, and fleeing a police officer. Dwyer said Bahri got out of prison about a year ago.
Bahri was ordered held without bond. He and will remain in the Macomb County Jail, awaiting his next court appearance set for Oct. 21.
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