http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2010/02/nj_authorities_search_raritan.htmlEAST ORANGE -- A 21-year-old Galloway Township man is charged with attempted murder after telling police he threw his 3-month-old daughter from the Garden State Parkway's Driscoll Bridge into the Raritan River Tuesday night, authorities said.
Rescue crews were out all night and continued to search the river this morning, said Stephen Jones, spokesperson for the New Jersey State Police. Shamsid-Din Abdur-Raheem is charged with attempted murder, kidnapping, aggravated assault, and possession of a weapon by East Orange police.
Abdur-Raheem, who does not have custody rights for his daughter, is accused of abducting Zara Malani-Lin Abdur-Raheem Tuesday from her grandmother in East Orange after an argument, authorities said.
Abdur-Raheem attacked the grandmother at 4:19 p.m. Tuesday in her apartment on South Harrison Street in East Orange and fled with his daughter, according to East Orange police spokesman Sgt. Andrew Dielmo.
East Orange police requested an Amber alert for a missing child and the Dodge Caravan Abdur-Raheem was driving, but the Amber alert was never issued because they found the suspect, Jones said.
Police in Winslow Township, Camden County received a call from a family member of Abdur-Raheem saying he was in the area, and officers found him four hours after the alleged kidnapping, said Winslow police Lt. Michael Hoffman.
Abdur-Raheem told police he threw Zara Malani-Lin from the Driscoll Bridge, which spans Raritan River on the Garden State Parkway, as he was driving south, Hoffman said. The New Jersey State Police immediately launched a search for the infant in the river.
Abdur-Raheem then drove down to Atlantic County where he went to see an Imam, Jones said. He then drove to Camden County.
The infant girl was last seen wearing only green pajamas, authorities said.
In a press conference, State Police said anybody who saw something suspicious on the Driscoll bridge between 4:30 pm and 530 pm to call police at (732) 264-4150.
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