Good Looking Man Could Not Possibly Be Killer

A neighbor to the Daily News on alleged robber/killer Mustafa Ali:

IT’S HARD for some Northeast Philadelphians to jibe news accounts about accused cold-blooded armored-truck killer Mustafa Ali with the neighbor that they saw: A good-looking and seemingly hardworking dad to three small kids.

“He’s a really attractive man, and he has three beautiful kids,” said Deborah Lewis, 37, a neighbor of Ali in the Franklin Square Townhomes on Woodhaven Road in the Far Northeast . “I’d see him come home from work with the kids, but he never spoke to me.”

The guy also had a job and after murdering two people went home and go to sleep, which a neighbor calls “really mental.” And there’s a ton of great bordering-on-old timey newspaper speak Daily News-type phrases, like cold-blooded armored-truck killer, retired cops-turned-armored-car guards, ruthlessness of the killer, etc.

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