Hi all,
The following is a pretty disturbing story that happened not too far from where I live. I don't know the family personally, but they're known in our community.
Here are a few links to the same story that piece together details:
http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-el-cajon-iraqi-woman-beaten-to-death,0,6474704.story
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-iraqi-woman-20120326,0,190790.story
http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2012/03/iraqi-woman-beaten-to-death-in-california-hate-crime-suspected/
The story as I heard it told from the word of mouth from people close to the family goes like this:
As usual after breakfast the husband takes the kids to school. The family has 5 children of which 4 of them leave with the husband which leaves the mother and her 17-year-old daughter home alone. The daughter is upstairs in her room when she hears a commotion but thinks it's her parents arguing or something (more on that later...). Apparently, during the commotion a man breaks in (his ethnicity is super sketchy because the daughter's and neighbor's story conflict) and hits the wife, a 32 year-old mother 8 times at head critically injuring her (there was barely anything left of her head) and breaks the window running out and leaving a message written on a piece of paper. At that moment the daughter runs down stairs and catches a glimpse of him (he apparently had a tire-iron or some sort of similar weapon). The neighbor's see the man sprinting away from the home at full speed and report him to be a black male, the daughter said that she saw a white male.
The mother, unconscious, was taken to the hospital and reported brain-dead. After a few days in the hospital the family decided to pull the plug and she died yesterday.
The family received a threatening hate note (the terrorists and go back to your country routine) a few weeks prior, but decided not to report it thinking it was teenagers making a baseless threat. Unfortunately, things like that should be taken seriously and if they reported this could have been prevented.
In San Diego people of different ethnicity, cultures, etc. enjoy a rather peaceful and hate-free co-existence. This comes as a shock.
Anyway, a few things:
-From what I can tell the mother appears to be targeted specifically, perhaps the attack was planned days before hand or even weeks (since the day they received the first note), and decided to carry out his cowardly act when they're most vulnerable. Apparently he didn't take into account the 17-year-old daughter still being home, or else he would have killed her too (she was upstairs at the time).
-If this was indeed a hate crime, than all the crap Fox and similar bull crap feeders finally got to a few nutcases and resulted in such a horrid lash.
-Finally, threats should always be taken seriously...
Edit: News coverage (I would ignore her religious rant because in distress things don't come out as planned). http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IqUvmbtnOME
The following is a pretty disturbing story that happened not too far from where I live. I don't know the family personally, but they're known in our community.
Here are a few links to the same story that piece together details:
http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-el-cajon-iraqi-woman-beaten-to-death,0,6474704.story
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-iraqi-woman-20120326,0,190790.story
http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2012/03/iraqi-woman-beaten-to-death-in-california-hate-crime-suspected/
The story as I heard it told from the word of mouth from people close to the family goes like this:
As usual after breakfast the husband takes the kids to school. The family has 5 children of which 4 of them leave with the husband which leaves the mother and her 17-year-old daughter home alone. The daughter is upstairs in her room when she hears a commotion but thinks it's her parents arguing or something (more on that later...). Apparently, during the commotion a man breaks in (his ethnicity is super sketchy because the daughter's and neighbor's story conflict) and hits the wife, a 32 year-old mother 8 times at head critically injuring her (there was barely anything left of her head) and breaks the window running out and leaving a message written on a piece of paper. At that moment the daughter runs down stairs and catches a glimpse of him (he apparently had a tire-iron or some sort of similar weapon). The neighbor's see the man sprinting away from the home at full speed and report him to be a black male, the daughter said that she saw a white male.
The mother, unconscious, was taken to the hospital and reported brain-dead. After a few days in the hospital the family decided to pull the plug and she died yesterday.
The family received a threatening hate note (the terrorists and go back to your country routine) a few weeks prior, but decided not to report it thinking it was teenagers making a baseless threat. Unfortunately, things like that should be taken seriously and if they reported this could have been prevented.
In San Diego people of different ethnicity, cultures, etc. enjoy a rather peaceful and hate-free co-existence. This comes as a shock.
Anyway, a few things:
-From what I can tell the mother appears to be targeted specifically, perhaps the attack was planned days before hand or even weeks (since the day they received the first note), and decided to carry out his cowardly act when they're most vulnerable. Apparently he didn't take into account the 17-year-old daughter still being home, or else he would have killed her too (she was upstairs at the time).
-If this was indeed a hate crime, than all the crap Fox and similar bull crap feeders finally got to a few nutcases and resulted in such a horrid lash.
-Finally, threats should always be taken seriously...
Edit: News coverage (I would ignore her religious rant because in distress things don't come out as planned). http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IqUvmbtnOME