Jury Finds Irvine Man Was Sane When He Stabbed His Co-worker, Co-worker’s Roommate to Death in Their Anaheim Apartment in 2022

Jury Finds Irvine Man Was Sane When He Stabbed His Co-worker, Co-worker's Roommate to Death in Their Anaheim Apartment in 2022

SANTA ANA, Calif. - A jury has found that an Irvine man was sane when he ambushed his co-worker at his Anaheim apartment and stabbed him to death and then pushed through the bathroom door and repeatedly stabbed his co-worker's roommate who was on the phone with 911 calling for help, killing him.

Ramy Hany Mounir Fahim, 30, pleaded guilty last month to the special circumstances murder of 23-year-old Griffin Cuomo and Cuomo's roommate, 23-year-old Johnathan Bahm, inside their Stadium House apartment on April 19, 2022. Cuomo and Fahim worked together at Pence Wealth Management, an Orange County wealth management company. Fahim had also previously entered a not guilty by reason of insanity plea which necessitated the trial to determine whether he was legally insane at the time he committed the murders.

In addition to pleading guilty to two counts of first-degree murder, Fahim admitted special circumstance allegations of lying in wait, multiple murders, and murder to avoid arrest as it related to the killing of Jonathan Bahm. Fahim also admitted to a personal use of a deadly weapon enhancement.

As a result of the jury's determination Fahim was sane when he committed the special circumstance murders, he will be sentenced to two consecutive sentences of life in prison without the possibility of parole.

A building security guard had encountered Fahim on the apartment complex' roof at midnight on April 18, 2022, just hours before the murders. Fahim was seen on the same floor of the victims' apartment the morning of the murders.

On April 19, 2022, Anaheim police responded to a 911 call reporting an assault at Stadium House apartments in the 2100 block of Katella Avenue, near State College Boulevard, around 6:50 a.m.

Fahim was still inside the victims' apartment when Anaheim police responded to the 911 call. Cuomo and Bahm were pronounced dead at the scene, and Fahim was hospitalized with minor injuries before being arrested on suspicion of murder.

"The violence carried out in that apartment was not an act of insanity. He carefully calculated how to gain access to his victims' apartment building, waiting for hours on the roof until he had the perfect opportunity to ambush his victim and execute a witness in the hopes of getting away with all of it," said Orange County District Attorney Todd Spitzer. "A mental illness defense should not be used as an attempt to escape accountability by defendants who were very much sane when they engaged in horrific acts of violence and when we have the facts to refute those claims of insanity, we will ensure justice is served."

Senior Deputy District Attorney Jeff Moore of the Homicide Unit is prosecuting this case.

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