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Salvatore Perrone (above) is claiming that video surveillance footage will clear him of wrongdoing for at least one of the murders he is convicted of.
Salvatore Perrone (above) is claiming that video surveillance footage will clear him of wrongdoing for at least one of the murders he is convicted of.
An accused serial killer from Staten Island is claiming that video surveillance footage will clear him of wrongdoing for at least one of the murders he is convicted of.

Salvatore Perrone, a clothing salesman who is accused in the deaths of three Middle Eastern storekeepers, expressed confidence on Friday, April 12, that MTA surveillance will show him exiting Brooklyn’s Parkside Avenue subway before the November 16th murder of Rahmatollah Vahidipour.

Perrone currently stands guilty for the serial slaying of Vahidipour along with two other Brooklyn storeowners.

One of the victims is 65-year-old Mohamed Gebeli, an Egyptian immigrant and a Muslim, who was shot in the back of Gebeli’s fashion shop in Bay Ridge, on July 6.

A month later on August 2, Perrone shot 59-year-old Isaac Kadare in the head from behind the counter of his 99 Cent store in Bensonhurst. Isaac was also Egyptian but Jewish, and a father of four.

His body was discovered by two customers who walked into the shop at 1877 86th Street at 8:45 PM and found the victim on the floor and unconscious.

To add to the tragedy, his wife Nancy was looking forward to celebrating Kadare’s birthday with him the following week.

“I don’t even know what to say. He loved his family, his four kids,” she sobbingly told media sources. “He was a really hard-working man, I don’t get it. A person is alive one day, and the next they are not.”

Neighbors said Kadare had come to the United States from Israel. He left behind a wife, two teenage daughters, a teen son and a 10-year-old daughter who were often seen hanging around the store alongside their father, according to the Post.

While Perrone said in court on Friday that he has alibis for all three murders, he maintained focus on claiming his innocence in Vahidipour’s case due to his adamant belief in the yet to be unearthed MTA surveillance video. Sources say that the statements could actually serve to implicate him further in the case.

Against the advice of his lawyer and the judge, Perrone did chose to speak at his hearing. He admitted that while he was in the vicinity of the murder, he did not commit the crime.

“He had the guts to talk back to the judge,” said Mr. Vahidipour’s daughter Marjan Vahidipour, 40. “He is not even sorry. It’s unreal.”

“It’s the MTA. For sure the MTA does not lose videos,” Perrone said, according to an account in the Wall Street Journal. “They don’t get lost or stolen. That video exists and will prove my alibi where I was.”

Judge Alan Marrus said that if video exists, it will be turned over to the defense in the case.  “I don’t quite have the same confidence in the MTA that you do, Mr. Perrone,” Marrus said, according to a Daily News account. “But I will say this: if they have it, you will get it.”

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