The suspect who is accused of gunning down a father of two outside an Atlanta-area preschool knew the victim and was his wife's supervisor, investigators confirmed Thursday.
Hemy Zvi Neuman, 46, is charged with murder in the Nov. 18 shooting death of 36-year-old Russell Sneiderman.
Neuman, an operations manager with General Electric, had supervised Sneiderman's wife, Andrea Sneiderman, at GE Energy, NBC News reported.
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Andrea Sneiderman and Neuman worked in separate buildings but had met often, company officials told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
Dunwoody police refused to release more details about how the two men knew each other because the investigation is ongoing.
"We still have detectives actively working this case," Sgt. Mike Carlson told the Atlanta newspaper.
The victim's father also had little to say to reporters.
"We talked to the police," Don Sneiderman told the Atlanta newspaper on Wednesday, adding, "We just don’t know enough, so we aren’t going to comment right now.”
What authorities do know is that Neuman has no criminal record and had previously lived in Florida, the Atlanta Journal Constitution reported. The father of three grew up in Israel and graduated from Georgia Tech in 1984.
Authorities said Sneiderman, a Harvard-educated entrepreneur, was approached by a gunman and shot several times in the parking lot of Dunwoody Prep daycare just as he was dropping off his toddler.
The gunman then fled the scene in a silver minivan, police said.