VA Man Abdool Zaman Wanted In Richmond Murder Of Daughter, Teen Girl, Captured In NY

HENRICO COUNTY, VA. (THECOUNT) — Abdool Zaman, the Henrico father wanted in the murder of his teenage daughter, Vanessa Zaman, and another teenage girl, Leona Samlall, in Henrico County, has been captured in New York, according to Henrico Police.

Zaman, whose age was not provided, was wanted on two warrants of second-degree murder, but that those charges will likely be upgraded.

Vanessa Zaman and Leona Samlall were shot as they walked near the Oakmeade Apartments on Airport Drive and East Nine Mile Road in Highland Springs around 12:17 p.m. Thursday, according to police.

Zaman got out of his car and confronted the girls before shooting them in what appeared to be a fit of rage, Crime Insider sources said. source

Samlall was briefly on a missing persons list in 2016, but later showed up safe in the Orlando, Florida area, Crime insider sources said. She is believed to have returned home to Henrico after fleeing a rocky relationship, according to sources.

Henrico County, officially the County of Henrico, is a county in the Commonwealth of Virginia in the United States. As of the 2010 census, the population was 306,935, source Wikipedia