05-15-2008, 04:16 PM
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A man wanted in a Philadelphia murder case is now suspected of carjacking a couple early Sunday in the city, fatally shooting the driver in Bucks County, then repeatedly raping the dead man's female friend until she escaped at a New Jersey motel. Bensalem police were seeking Omar Sharif Cash, 26, of the Kensington section of Philadelphia, after the apparently random carjacking and slaying of Edgar Rosas-Gutierrez, 32, and the rape of his companion, 41.
Cash is wanted by Philadelphia police in connection with the April 21 slaying of Muliek Brown, 19, at a car wash on Frankford Avenue.
"This is a person who we need to get off the streets for the rest of his life," Philadelphia Homicide Capt. James Clark said yesterday.
Bensalem police were likewise appalled by a videotape captured by a Comfort Inn security camera Sunday in Lawrenceville, N.J., of a man bargaining with the desk clerk over the price of the room where he was about to continue raping the woman.
"Here's a guy who had just killed a man in cold blood, who had raped a woman a couple of times and was about to rape her again," said Fred Harran, Bensalem's public-safety director.
"And he's haggling over the price of the room. This guy is subhuman."
The two dead men, Brown and Rosas-Gutierrez, lived within two blocks of each other on Penn Street in the Frankford section of the city.
Philadelphia police say Cash and Brown knew each other and had clashed before.
Cash is accused of walking up to Brown about 3:30 p.m. on April 21 at a car wash in the 3700 block of Frankford Avenue and shooting Brown in the head.
"We still don't know exactly why," Clark said.
Bensalem police say they have no reason to think Rosas-Gutierrez and Cash knew each other, and have called Sunday's violence random.
"Right now, all evidence points to a random act," Harran said.
Rosas-Gutierrez and his friend had left an after-hours club on Castor Avenue when they were carjacked shortly before 3:30 a.m. Sunday, Harran said.
The gunman forced the woman into the backseat of the black 1998 Buick Regal and raped her while Rosas-Gutierrez drove north on Route 1, Harran said.
The carjacker then ordered Rosas-Gutierrez out of the car on the ramp leading from Route 1 to eastbound Street Road in Bensalem, Harran said. "It appeared at that point that he executed him" with a shot to the head, Harran said. Rosas-Gutierrez's body was found in the brush later that day.
After a short distance, the car pulled over again, and the gunman raped the woman a second time, Harran said.
The car then continued - it was unclear who drove, Harran said - to the motel.
The surveillance video shows the man, in a Pittsburgh Pirates cap, leaning over the front desk, casually gesturing and talking to the night clerk. The woman stood in the lobby nearby, Harran said.
The two went to the room, where the sexual assaults continued until the woman escaped about 6:30 a.m., he said.
"She tells him she's thirsty as a ruse to get out of the room," Harran said. "They go to the soda machine, at which time she makes her break."
The Portuguese-speaking woman ran from the hall to the lobby, Harran said, and jumped over the clerk's desk.
"She says or motions to him that this guy has a gun and to call 911," Harran said. The man fled in the stolen Buick, which has not been recovered.
Yesterday, at Rosas-Gutierrez's small, two-room apartment, a friend described him as "a good guy."
His bed, a mattress on the floor, was made, with a folded pair of sweat pants and a belt on it. Several button-down shirts hung on a hook above a television, and baby turtles swam in a small tank.
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