Man shot in New Jersey hotel identified

Authorities have identified the man killed in a shooting at the Ramada Hotel in Fairfield on Friday that also left another man injured.

The Essex County Prosecutor’s Office identified the man as Mohammad Sahariar, 28, of Fairfield. Prosecutors continued to conceal the identity of the man who survived the shooting.

“I will miss you forever my dear brother,” Sahariar’s brother Tanjil Islam wrote on his Facebook page after hearing the news.

Islam told NJ Advance Media he believes his brother lives and works at the Ramada. He said investigators have shared very little information about what happened.

“We don’t know who shot and how it happened,” Islam said in an exchange on Facebook. “We’re not even sure what the cause is.”

Sahariar calls himself Mohammad Sahariar Islam on his Facebook page. The site describes him as a native of Bangladesh and says he studied engineering management at Drexel University, information technology at American National University and aeronautical engineering at Nanjing University in China.

No arrests have been made and prosecutors have not yet provided a motive or account of the shooting. Essex County Prosecutor Ted Stephens held a briefing at the hotel Friday and said there was no immediate danger to the public.

Fairfield police responded to the Ramada at the Wyndham Hotel on Two Bridges Road just before 12:30 a.m. Friday for a report of an “unknown problem,” prosecutors said. When police arrived, they found two men with gunshot wounds.

One of the men was unresponsive and Sahariar was pronounced dead about an hour later at a local hospital, the district attorney’s office said. The survivor was treated for a gunshot wound at a local hospital and his condition is unknown.

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