Larme Price

Victims

4 killings and 1 survivor - he pleaded guilty in November 2003 under an agreement that spared him a death sentence, having been charged with four counts of murder and two of attempted murder. A FIFTH man, Yakoob Aldailam, was shot several times and survived. The sentence is reported as life without parole and also as one hundred and fifty years without parole; the terms amount to the same thing and the archive states the former

Years active

February 8 - March 20, 2003

Location

Brooklyn and Queens, New York, USA

Method

Shooting

Status

Walked into a police station on March 28, 2003 claiming to know who was responsible and naming a man called Dog, having already been captured on surveillance footage, and confessed the following day. He was charged with four counts of murder and two of attempted murder, and indicted on three counts of first-degree murder. In November 2003, facing a possible death sentence, he pleaded guilty under an agreement that spared his life, and was sentenced in February 2004 to life without the possibility of parole. He is held at the Green Haven Correctional Facility. He told investigators robbery was never his motive and that he was avenging the September 11 attacks, describing a paranoid hatred of Arabs; only one of the four he killed was Middle Eastern. His mother said he was a mentally disturbed drug addict who had twice tried to admit himself to mental health facilities and been turned away, and hospital records show he was treated for mental health problems in October 2001 and again on March 9, 2003, the day before he killed Albert Kotlyar. He had eight arrests dating back to 1989 for robbery, assault and weapons possession.

Larme Price, born in 1972, shot four shopkeepers in Brooklyn and Queens between 8 February and March 20, 2003: John Freddy, 43, Sujit Khajala, 50, Albert Kotlyar, 32, and Mohammed Abdul Nasser Ali, 54. All four were immigrants, and he told police he had killed them to avenge the attacks of September 11, 2001, initially describing his targets as Arabs, though the men he killed were of several different nationalities. The New York press called him the Sept. 11 Killer, after the grievance he gave for the shootings.

He was arrested on March 29, 2003, pleaded guilty in November of that year and was sentenced to life in prison in February 2004.

The stated motive and the actual identities of the victims did not correspond, and his mental state was raised in the proceedings. The available sourcing is local New York reporting of the plea and does not set out what the court found on that question.