The employee at LPL-affiliated RIA firm Pence Wealth Management accused of fatally stabbing a co-worker and the co-worker's roommate in April 2022 is scheduled to undergo a second arraignment in late May, according to the prosecutor's office.
Ramy Hany Mounir Fahim, of Irvine, California, has been charged with murdering co-worker Griffin Cuomo, 23, and Cuomo's roommate, Jonathan Bahm, 23, at their Anaheim apartment.
The arraignment expected on May 24 in California Superior Court in Orange County follows a preliminary hearing last August in which Fahim was held to answer on the charges, a spokesman for the Orange County district attorney's office told ThinkAdvisor by email Tuesday.
"Generally speaking, a defendant is arraigned after charges are filed and again if a judge finds enough evidence was presented at a preliminary hearing," the spokesman said.
Fahim, who was 26 in April 2022 when the stabbings occurred, was charged with "special circumstances murders" in the case (#22NF1025); the special circumstances of lying in wait and multiple murders make him eligible for the death penalty, prosecutors said in a press release after his arrest.
In addition to two murder counts, Fahim was charged with use of a knife to commit the crimes, lying in wait to murder Cuomo and murdering Bahm to avoid arrest, according to a court document.
