The asylum-seeking migrant suspected of beating and suffocating New York mother Jamey Carney inside her Ireland home was in Turkey by the time police launched a manhunt for the ‘significant person of interest.”
Ahmad Alsaqer, 28, allegedly booked a flight out of Dublin and landed in Istanbul hours before Carney’s 13-year-old daughter discovered her mom in the bed of their Killarney home Tuesday around 1 p.m., the Irish Independent reported.
Alsaqer — who applied for asylum after arriving in Ireland from the Middle East in 2024 — was identified as a “person of significant interest,” and hopped on a bus around 3 a.m. for the Irish capital airport after allegedly killing his 43-year-old partner hours earlier.
Police believe Alsaqer will attempt to travel through the Middle East to get back to Jordan, Extra.ie reported.
Alsaqer, who has connections in Turkey, Syria and Jordan and is fluent in Arabic, French and English, was described by the Irish National Police, Gardai, as a person of interest in Carney’s murder, the outlet reported.
He is believed to have been one of the last people to see Carney after spending Sunday and Monday with her.
Carney, who was found hidden underneath a duvet with multiple severe wounds to the head, died of suffocation after neighbors reported hearing an argument coming from the rented home, officials said.
Police issued alerts to Ireland’s ports and airports to be on the lookout for Alsaqer, fearing he would try to leave the country, not knowing he had already slipped out.
Alsaqer, who was in the process of seeking asylum in Ireland, had gotten his passport returnedto him by authorities before the murder, and used the travel document to escape to Turkey.
The couple had sparked a relationship in the last few months after meeting at a local anti-Israeli protest.
Because Alsaqer had frequented Carney’s house before her murder, investigators may have a hard time charging him with murder because his DNA from previous visits would be found around the house, according to the Irish Times.
“It would be different if he was an intruder or had never been there before – he might be struggling to explain his DNA in that scenario,” the source told the paper.
Carney shared several photos of the two on social media, including on July 4th seemingly wishing she was back in her home state while the couple dressed in New York sports apparel in front of a computer-generated backdrop of Times Square.
The suspected murderer commented multiple times under Carney’s posts with loving messages, including “I love you so much,” and “my beautiful family.”
Carney was politically vocal on her social media accounts, with her bios reading “Free Palestine” and “Fk ICE.”
She also posed in several photos while attending anti-Israeli rallies and wore a checkered keffiyeh alongside Alsaqer.
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