BEECHER -- Angry crowds gathered outside of the Kingwater Market party store in Beecher Thursday. This as word trickled in that the serial stabbing suspect, Isreali-national Elias Abuelazam, worked there from early July up until Aug. 1.

Police in the bordering Mount Morris Township said at least 100 people populated near the store, verbally threatening its manager and owner Abdullah Farah. Farah condemned the allegations against the 33-year-old Abuelazam in an impromptu meeting with reporters before leaving with a police escort. 

“I hope that if he’s the one that did this, I hope they hang him,” he said. Farah said he saw no signs of aggression on the job. “He was very polite to me.  He didn’t show any kind of racism.  He didn’t show any kind of anything.”

Abuelazam is accused of a stabbing spree spanning as many as three states with 14 victims in Genesee County, dating back to May.  Five of those victims died.  Abuelazam was arrested at Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport at the request of Michigan State Police investigators.  He was minutes away from taking a Delta Air Lines flight to Tel Aviv. 

Abuelazam was in the United States on what Genesee County Prosecutor David Leyton called the highest level of certification short of full-citizenship.  Sources tell NBC25 he traveled to Michigan from Virginia where his sister lives, and approached the Kingwater Market for a job.  Stay with NBC25 for further developments.