Inset: Ahmed Al-Malahi (Allen County Sheriff). Background: One Stop Shop convenience store in Fort Wayne, Indiana, where Al-Malahi killed his father (Google Maps).
An Indiana teen who stabbed his father 45 times inside his convenience store and then went to school as if it were a normal day is headed to prison.
Ahmed Al-Malahi, now 18, was sentenced to 30 years in prison for killing his father Tawfika Al-Malahi in February 2023. He will receive about 14 months of credit for time already served. The younger Al-Malahi pleaded guilty last month to voluntary manslaughter, with the defendant committing the intentional act “under heat,” per records. As part of the plea deal, prosecutors dismissed the murder charge.
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According to a probable cause arrest affidavit obtained by local CBS affiliate WANE, Al-Malahi, then 16, hid under a table inside the One Stop Store on Creighton Avenue in Fort Wayne on Feb. 7, 2023, and waited for his father to walk inside.
When he did, the killer pounced. He stabbed his 52-year-old father in the back multiple times, and hit him in the head with a piece of metal. After his father fell to the ground, Al-Malahi continued to stab him. He also slit the elder man’s throat and caused a skull fracture — apparently after the victim had already died, according to the affidavit.
Ahmed Al-Malahi then reportedly cleaned up the scene with bleach and stole the DVR that controlled the store’s surveillance system before stealing some money from the cash register to make it appear the killing happened during a robbery gone wrong. After changing his clothes, he left the store and tossed the DVR along with the bloody weapons and bleach bottle in a dumpster behind an elementary school, cops said.
The defendant rode his bike and then a bus to Northrop High School where he was a student, arriving around 11:40 a.m.
A few hours later, the elder Al-Malahi was found and pronounced dead. Cops never publicly released a motive for the attack.
Ahmed Al-Malahi was arrested not long after the slaying and has been in jail ever since.
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