California RIA firm employee arrested in double homicide

California RIA firm employee arrested in double homicide
Ramy Fahim is suspected of killing a co-worker at Pence Wealth Management and that man's roommate earlier this week.
APR 22, 2022

Police in Anaheim, California, arrested 26-year-old RIA firm employee Ramy Fahim on suspicion of murder in a double homicide involving a colleague. The murders occurred Tuesday.

According to his LinkedIn profile, Fahim is an employee of Pence Wealth Management, a hybrid RIA firm whose registered representatives are affiliated with LPL Financial.

One of the two men Fahim is accused of murdering, Griffin Robert Cuomo, 23, is identified on the Pence website as a marketing/media assistant. The other victim, 23-year-old Jonathan Andrew Bahm, was Cuomo’s roommate.

According to the report from the Anaheim police department, on Tuesday morning the police responded to reports that an assault was occurring and found the two victims dead in an apartment. Fahim was also in the apartment and had suffered a minor injury.

Fahim is a resident of Irvine, California.

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