“The feeling is that she may have met this individual at an anti-war demonstration and kept in contact over the last number of months,” a po
The suspect in the murder of a New York mom who recently moved to Ireland is a Middle Eastern asylum-seeker who met her at an anti-Israel protest — and who may have already fled the country, according to reports.
The bloody body of Jamey Carney, 43, was found Tuesday afternoon by her 13-year-old daughter at her rented home in Killarney, where she had moved five years ago from Westchester County, the Irish Sun reported.
She was beaten to death and suffered multiple head injuries, with cops probing reports that a loud argument was heard the night before at her home on a luxury housing estate.
The “person of significant interest” is a 28-year-old migrant from the Middle East who applied for asylum after arriving in Ireland in 2024, police told the Irish Independent, without naming him.
Carney, who worked for a healthcare consulting company, reportedly knew the man for a year and a half after meeting at a pro-Palestine protest, sources at the Gardai, the Irish police, told the Irish Sun.
The slain mom previously posted a video of herself in a keffiyeh at an anti-Israel rally.
“The feeling is that she may have met this individual at an anti-war demonstration and kept in contact over the last number of months,” a police source told the Irish Sun.
Police have issued alerts at ports and airports over fears he may have fled the country before the body was even found.
“If this poor woman was killed on Monday night, then her killer would have had sufficient time to travel to another location in the country,” a police source told the Irish Sun.
One theory is that he may have taken a bus to Dublin from Killarney around 3 a.m. Tuesday — several hours before Carney’s daughter found her slain mom — and then boarded a last-minute flight to Istanbul in Turkey, sources told the Irish Independent.
Cops are focusing on contacts he has in both Turkey and France, where he previously spent time, and trying to clarify what travel documents he had, the reports said
However, it is unclear how he could have fled the country as he wouldn’t have had access to his passport due to his open asylum application, the sources said.
Carney’s daughter, who was in the house at the time of the killing, raised the alarm when she called a family friend on Tuesday, and is now being supported by relatives, the Irish Independent reported.
The room was covered in blood, and Carney’s killer had reportedly pulled the bedclothes up over her torso and face before fleeing, the outlet reported.
Cops are examining security footage to determine all movements at and around her house since July 5.
Carney, who was actively involved in local sports and heritage groups, as well as pro-Palestine campaign groups in Ireland, had lifelong connections with the country going back to her teenage years.
Her family is said to be flying to Ireland from the US.
The death was described as “an appalling tragedy” by local councillor Martin Grady, who was a personal friend of Carney.
“She was a loving, caring mother and was always happy and smiling,” he said.
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