Execution-style slaying of stock promoters baffles police
cnn.com
COLTS NECK, New Jersey (AP) -- Two Internet penny stock promoters found shot to death had ties to "shady" business dealings, which may ultimately have led to their execution-style killings, a prosecutor said.
Alain Chalem, 41, and Mayir Lehmann, 37, were found early Tuesday face down on the bloodstained marble floor of the estate Chalem shared with his girlfriend and her 13-year-old son.
Though investigators have not pinpointed a motive or suspects, Monmouth County Prosecutor John Kaye said the attack likely was at least partly tied to the pair's penny stock Web operation, www.stockinvestor.com, or other ventures.
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Investigators believe at least two gunmen attacked the men late Monday while they were reviewing business papers in the $1.1 million home. Chalem and Lehmann were first crippled by the gunfire, then shot point-blank in their heads, authorities said.
Chalem was shot once in the chest and five times in the head, while Lehmann, of Woodmere, New York, was shot in the leg and once in the back of the head, Kaye said. Their cellular telephones were inches from their hands, and they were still ringing on Wednesday.
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