Among the mourners attending shiva at Rusty Sneiderman's home after his burial was Hemy Neuman, his alleged killer, two sources who were at the ceremony confirmed to The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
The 48-year-old operations manager calmly offered condolences to the family, including Sneiderman's brother, Steve, and widow, Andrea, who worked under Neuman at General Electric Energy.
About six weeks later, Neuman was arrested and charged with gunning down Sneiderman, 36, outside a Dunwoody day care facility on Nov. 18. Police said the victim knew the alleged shooter.
E-mails obtained by the AJC confirm the two were well-acquainted. They had lunch Aug. 12 -- a meeting set up by Andrea. Her boss wanted to leave GE, the e-mails reveal, with him complaining of "more responsibility" minus a promotion.
"I can see why Andrea is enjoying working with you," Sneiderman wrote in an e-mail after that Aug. 12 lunch.
He continued with a favorite anecdote from business school. “It’s about a GE exec who leaves GE, buys a business and sells it a few years later for a significant profit,” Sneiderman said in the e-mail.
The two swapped collegial e-mails after their meeting, with Sneiderman providing business contacts for Neuman.
But it's the "continuous communication" between Sneiderman's wife and her husband's alleged killer that interests DeKalb County District Attorney's Office investigators, who successfully petitioned a judge for search warrants of the pair's phone and e-mail records from Sept. 1 to Jan. 15. Neuman was arrested Jan. 4.
The two were in contact before and after Sneiderman's death, the affidavit alleges. Meanwhile, in the days after the shooting and before his arrest, Neuman was in communication with sources provided to him by Rusty Sneiderman.
In one e-mail exchange with an associate of the dead man, Neuman wrote of Sneiderman's shooting, "So tragic and unfortunate. Hard to find the words."
The district attorney's office won't confirm whether the warrants, signed Feb. 24, have been executed. They seek information “not necessarily illicit” but which “may reveal motive to murder him,” an investigator with the district attorney’s office testified in an affidavit, submitted by investigators to secure the warrant and obtained by the AJC.
Police have not implicated Andrea Sneiderman in her husband’s death.
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