Elias Abuelazam

Elias Abuelazam
Mugshot of Elias Abuelazam after his arrest for a misdemeanor assault warrant in Arlington, Virginia on August 5, 2010
Born	Elias Abuelazam August 29, 1976 Ramla, Israel
Other names	Elias Abullazam
Height	6 ft 5 in (196 cm)
Weight	280 lb (127 kg)
Criminal penalty	Life imprisonment without the possibility of parole
Conviction(s)	First degree murder
Killings
Victims	1 (convicted) Suspected in 17 further attacks, resulting in another 4 deaths.
Span of killings	March 2009–August 2010
Country	United States
State(s)	Michigan, Ohio, and Virginia
Date apprehended	August 11, 2010

Elias Abuelazam (Arabic: الياس أبو عزام‎‎, Hebrew: אליאס אבו אל עזאם‎‎, born August 29, 1976) is an Israeli-Arab convicted murderer, and suspect of racialserial killing and multiple stabbings. He is suspected in a string of 18 stabbing attacks in the spring and summer of 2010 which resulted in five deaths. Most of the alleged attacks occurred in Genesee County, Michigan (particularly in and around Flint). Five stabbings occurred outside of Michigan: three in Leesburg, Virginia and another in Toledo, Ohio, and one in his native home in Ramla, Israel. Abuelazam is also suspected in an unsolved March 2009 homicide in Leesburg. All of Abuelazam's alleged victims were described as "small framed" (e.g. short, thin, non-muscular) men, most of them African Americans. During the investigation, Michigan media dubbed him "The Genesee County Serial Slasher" (or alternately "The Genesee County Serial Stabber"). Abuelazam was 6 feet 5 inches (1.96 m) and weighed 280 pounds (130 kg) at the time of his booking. Abuelazam has been convicted in one of the murders, that of 49-year-old Arnold Minor in Flint, Michigan which occurred on August 2, 2010. He is currently serving a sentence of life imprisonment without the possibility of parole for that crime. As a result, Genesee County prosecutors have announced Abuelazam will not stand trial for the other crimes in their jurisdiction, nor will authorities in Toledo or Leesburg try him. He is currently incarcerated at Gus Harrison Correctional Facility in Adrian, Michigan as Michigan Department of Corrections inmate number 842658.