Girlfriend, 22, is charged with murdering her 53-year-old 'Sugar Daddy' before cutting his thumb off and using it to access his phone's banking apps

The 22-year-old woman of a sweetener daddy, 53, is down bars, accused of execution him past severing his thumb successful bid to usage his banking and Uber app.

The scary unfolded this past April successful Washington DC. Police judge that Tiffany Gray killed Fasil Teklemariam wrong of his apartment. He was stabbed, suffered caput trauma successful summation to having his thumb trim off, it has yet to beryllium recovered. 

A witnesser told investigators that Gray and her accomplices past utilized nan thumb to spell connected a spending spree, buying weed and booze.

Surveillance footage astir Teklemariam's flat building successful nan Manor Park conception of DC showed Gray and different woman, Audrey Miller, 19, alongside 2 different men, entering and leaving nan building astir nan clip of nan killing. 

Teklemariam was recovered dormant successful his chamber connected April 5 surrounded surgery glass. It's not clear if his thumb was removed earlier aliases aft his death. 

His SUV was missing from its accustomed parking abstraction successful beforehand of his building. The unfortunate was past seen connected April 1, stepping pinch Gray into his flat building.  

Gray entered and near nan building aggregate times betwixt April 1 and April 5. 

During this time, nan group could beryllium seen Teklemariam's belongings retired pinch them. In charging documents, detectives said that they person still not recovered respective physics and family items that belonged to nan victim.

In 1 clip, a personnel of nan group brings cleaning supplies into nan building. 

'The suspects stole respective items from resident. A hunt of [Teklemariam's] residence showed that respective physics devices and family items were stolen,' nan criminal title alleges. 

The documents corroborate that cleaning supplies were utilized successful nan flat but that a bloody shoeprint was recovered.  

Police were led to Gray arsenic a imaginable fishy erstwhile detectives discovered that successful October 2023, he made a title to nan DC police, accusing her of stealing his telephone and moving up charges of $1,800 connected his banking app. 

The hunt clues past recovered that Teklemariam's cellphone was pinged adjacent to a cellphone building successful College Park, Maryland, adjacent to wherever Gray was surviving astatine nan time, Teklemariam was nan guarantor connected nan apartment.. 

The allegation that nan unfortunate was acting arsenic nan suspect's sweetener daddy is mentioned successful nan criminal title and is attributed to 'witnesses.'

Investigators judge that Gray has 'repeatedly' committed nan crime of gathering men online and stealing from them. 

In 1 lawsuit this past May, Gray is accused of gathering up pinch a man and past showing up astatine his location pinch 2 others, who were armed. 

The group are accused of robbing nan man while tying his hands and feet pinch zip ties. 

Under threat of violence, nan man revealed his banking pin codes. His location was besides burglarized. 

Miller was first arrested connected June 21 and charged pinch first grade murder. She was ordered to beryllium held without bond. Gray was arrested connected July 1 and charged pinch first grade execution and equipped felony murder.

One of nan men who accompanied them into nan flat has been identified and is not charged pinch a crime.  

Authorities allege that Gray was utilizing nan pseudonym Taylor Greene successful nan aftermath of nan murder. 

According to his Facebook page, Teklemariam was a autochthonal of Addis Ababa successful Ethiopia. It's unclear erstwhile he moved to nan United States. His floor plan shows pictures of him pinch a family, consisting of a woman and 2 children. 

The astir caller video connected his page, shows his children paying tribute to him connected Father's Day successful 2022. 'I dream you unrecorded longer than immoderate personification successful nan world,' his boy says. 

On his LinkedIn page, Teklemariam said that he worked arsenic a technician for nan Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority.