Tai’raz Moore.Photo: GoFundMe
A Michigan man has been convicted of fatally shooting a 6-year-old boy “execution-style,” and also murdering the boy’s father and the dad’s girlfriend.
On Friday, Nicholas Bahri, 39, of West Bloomfield Township, was found guilty of all 15 charges against him in the Oct. 1, 2020, murders of Tukoyo Moore, 31; Moore’s girlfriend, Isis Rimson, 28; and his son, Tai’raz Moore, 6,Fox2Detroitreports.
“This was all over drugs and money,” Warren Police Commissioner William Dwyer said at the time of Bahri’s arrest in Oct. 2020, calling the murders one of the worst series of crimes he has ever seen,The Detroit Newsreports.
Bahri was found guilty of three counts of felony murder, three counts of first-degree murder - multiple theories, one count of fourth-degree felony arson, one count of dead body disinterment and mutilation and seven counts of weapons charges, Fox2Detroit reports.
Nicholas Raad Bahri.Warren Police Department
At about 2 a.m. on Oct. 1, 2020, police found the body of Tukoyo Moore, in the backseat of a rental car that had been set on fire and burned on Detroit’s east side,The Detroit Newsreports.
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Hours later, detectives went to Moore’s home in Warren and found a horrific scene.
“Violent acts among drug dealers is not new,” said Dwyer.
Killing the little boy was “truly evil” and “even intolerable in the criminal world,” Dwyer said.
The night before Tai’raz died, he talked about how excited he was about losing his first front tooth, Geraldine Bell, his great-grandmother, said,C and G Newsreports.
He died before the tooth fell out, she said.
At a 2020 press conference Rimson’s mother, Derlande Farmer, thanked police for tracking down and arresting Bahri, saying, “We just want to see justice done.”
After a jury found Bahri guilty after a six-day trial, Farmer said, “We know that we can’t bring our family members back but we’re happy this man will be off the streets because he is a menace to society and would do it again,“The Detroit Free Pressreports.
“What he did was inhuman and unnecessary, and he has not shown any remorse.”
Bahri will be sentenced on June 15. He faces a sentence of life in prison without parole.
His attorney did not respond to PEOPLE’s request for comment.
source: people.com
