Binghamton Grad Student Accused Of Killing Professor

A Binghamton University graduate student was charged with the murder of a professor. According to the Binghamton Press & Sun-Bulletin, Abdulsalam Al-Zahrani, 46, allegedly stabbed "BU anthropology professor emeritus Richard T. Antoun... Antoun knew Al-Zahrani, a Saudi national, through his work in BU's anthropology graduate program, according to a statement released Saturday by Broome County District Attorney Gerald Mollen," who added, "There is no indication of religious or ethnic motivation." However, Al-Zahrani's apartment mates tell the paper that he "was confrontational, argumentative and 'acted like a terrorist.'" One said Al-Zahrani "came at me with a knife" while the other said, "He would be sitting here on the sofa and just blurt out, 'I just feel like destroying the world.'"

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By Jen Chung in News on December 6, 2009 12:30 PM

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Rocknrope

He should've just gone and gotten plastered at the Ratt like every other Bing student, followed up by a couple of chicken speidies.

JacqueMehoff

he looks like Tracy morgan/tracy jordan.

ides_of_march

"There is no indication of religious or ethnic motivation."

Bullshit. The victim was a convert to Judaism.

The politically correct media will never admit when a muslim kills out of religious hatred: they said the same thing about the muslim who murdered 13 people at Fort Hood while shouting Allah Akbar. They said the same thing about the muslim who shot up a synagogue in Seattle because he didn't like Israel. They said the same thing about the muslim who deliberately slammed his suv into a crowd of people at a North Carolina university. The list goes on.

newport27

are you dumb?

the media is always demonizing muslims at every chance they get because they are all racist zionists with selfish money, power, and political interests

carbomb

yeah, and the media makes up stories about psycho zealots bombing each other's mosques and school buses

Amanda Harletsch

Crazy people come in all shapes and forms, but when mentally unstable is passed as "personality" and "free speech" this is what you get. Too much individualism just lets this self-entitled crazy idiots to be anywhere. Now give the guy a taxi, and he will merge perfectly in the New York Landscape.

CR

Amande - As usual your post makes no sense *and* is kinda racist.

Amanda Harletsch

Racist? why? Against crazy people?

barryap

Hi! Welcome to Gothamist! Can I show you around?

Snoopy

He wouldn't be the first cab driver who had a Masters degree in an obscure vocation. Oops I forgot to ask, did he get his Masters or not? I hear he had a problem with his final dissertation.

NannyState

Did he stab towards Mecca?

Snoopy

Come on, the dude is 46 years old and still tying to get an education? Plus he lives with room mates. GROW UP and get a job working as a cab driver or news stand operator.

Or just take him out back and just shoot the jerk.