India, July 12 -- A search is underway for an asylum-seeking migrant suspected of beating and suffocating New York mother Jamey Carney to death inside her Ireland home. Police launched a manhunt for the "significant person of interest."

Ahmad Alsaqer, 28, was reportedly in Turkey by the time police launched a manhunt. He allegedly booked a flight out of Dublin and landed in Istanbul hours before Carney's daughter, 13, found her mother dead in the bed of their Killarney home on Tuesday, July 7, around 1 pm, Irish Independent reported.

Alsaqer applied for asylum after arriving in Ireland from the Middle East in 2024, the New York Post reported. He boarded a bus around 3 am for the Irish capital airport after allegedly murdering Carney, hi...