RALEIGH
Elhadji Seydou Diop, who police say killed his wife and daughter
April 6 at their West Raleigh home and tried to kill himself, appeared
before a judge Thursday, a day after being released from a hospital.
Diop, gaunt and slightly stooped, walked stiff-legged into the courtroom and stood before Wake County District Judge Jacqueline Brewer. He held his head down and listened quietly as Brewer explained that he could face the death penalty or life in prison without the possibility of parole if he is convicted of the first-degree murder of his wife and toddler child.
Police charged Diop, 53, with murder the day they found his wife, Aminata Drame, 40, and the couple’s 2-year-old daughter, Fatim Diop, dead and Diop injured in their townhouse at 5943 Farm Gate Road.
Diop had cut himself and ingested “toxic substances” that police have not specified and was taken to WakeMed Hospital in Raleigh. Doctors released him Wednesday, and he appeared to have wounds on his neck during the court hearing.
Officers went to the Diop home after Diop’s niece, who lives in Dakar, Senegal, saw photos of an already dead Drame and Fatim that he had apparently posted on his Facebook page.
“Look what god did 2. Me.,” investigators think Diop posted on his Facebook page at 2:41 p.m. on the day of the shootings. “A beautiful family. all gone.”
According to the Senegalese online newspaper DakarFLASH.com, Diop had also written on his Facebook page, “They just died, and I will be next. Who will stop me?”
It appeared that Diop had positioned his wife and daughter before taking the pictures he posted on Facebook. Mother and child were lying face up, with Fatim resting on her mother’s right arm and turned so that it appears she’s looking up into the face of her mother.
Diop’s niece saw the Facebook postings and called her husband, who lives in New York City, according to a 911 recording made public shortly after the victims were found.
The husband called 911 in New York, and a dispatcher there contacted Wake County’s 911 center.
Neighbors in the townhome complex on Farm Gate Road said the couple had been living in the neighborhood for about two months. DakarFLASH.com reported that Drame had found work at a post office and was looking forward to enrolling in school.
State records show that Diop owned two business, “Arts Decor of Africa” in Cary and “Diop” in Apex. State records listed the enterprises as “fictitious businesses.” Family members living in Apex have declined to comment.
During the brief court hearing Thursday, Brewer ordered Diop held without the option of posting bail. Deputies then took him back to the Wake County jail.
Diop, gaunt and slightly stooped, walked stiff-legged into the courtroom and stood before Wake County District Judge Jacqueline Brewer. He held his head down and listened quietly as Brewer explained that he could face the death penalty or life in prison without the possibility of parole if he is convicted of the first-degree murder of his wife and toddler child.
Police charged Diop, 53, with murder the day they found his wife, Aminata Drame, 40, and the couple’s 2-year-old daughter, Fatim Diop, dead and Diop injured in their townhouse at 5943 Farm Gate Road.
Diop had cut himself and ingested “toxic substances” that police have not specified and was taken to WakeMed Hospital in Raleigh. Doctors released him Wednesday, and he appeared to have wounds on his neck during the court hearing.
Officers went to the Diop home after Diop’s niece, who lives in Dakar, Senegal, saw photos of an already dead Drame and Fatim that he had apparently posted on his Facebook page.
“Look what god did 2. Me.,” investigators think Diop posted on his Facebook page at 2:41 p.m. on the day of the shootings. “A beautiful family. all gone.”
According to the Senegalese online newspaper DakarFLASH.com, Diop had also written on his Facebook page, “They just died, and I will be next. Who will stop me?”
It appeared that Diop had positioned his wife and daughter before taking the pictures he posted on Facebook. Mother and child were lying face up, with Fatim resting on her mother’s right arm and turned so that it appears she’s looking up into the face of her mother.
Diop’s niece saw the Facebook postings and called her husband, who lives in New York City, according to a 911 recording made public shortly after the victims were found.
The husband called 911 in New York, and a dispatcher there contacted Wake County’s 911 center.
Neighbors in the townhome complex on Farm Gate Road said the couple had been living in the neighborhood for about two months. DakarFLASH.com reported that Drame had found work at a post office and was looking forward to enrolling in school.
State records show that Diop owned two business, “Arts Decor of Africa” in Cary and “Diop” in Apex. State records listed the enterprises as “fictitious businesses.” Family members living in Apex have declined to comment.
During the brief court hearing Thursday, Brewer ordered Diop held without the option of posting bail. Deputies then took him back to the Wake County jail.
Thomasi McDonald: 919-829-4533, @tmcdona75589225
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