Posted on 11/11/2004 2:41:31 AM PST by Max Combined
PHILADELPHIA - Third-year medical student Lea Sullivan walked out of a grocery store Sunday afternoon onto a busy sidewalk in one of the city's most vibrant neighborhoods, and met a savage, inexplicable end.
A burly man in a ski mask attacked the former homecoming queen from behind, clubbing her in the head with a baseball bat and continuing to beat her after she fell. The attack lasted seconds — a minute, tops.
Although South Street was crowded with shoppers, no one tried to stop the attack.
But witnesses did get a good look at the assailant, who removed his mask. "He took it off so everybody could see him," said Lt. Michael Morrin of the homicide division.
Bystanders also took down the man's license plate number, leading police to Nader Ali, 26, a former medical student who had been placed on leave from Jefferson Medical College last year because he had been acting erratically, according to a school spokesman. Ali was arrested Monday at his parents' home in New Jersey.
Police have not disclosed a motive for the attack and refused to comment on Ali's mental state or provide any other details, other than to say that Sullivan's roommates described Ali as just an acquaintance of hers.
The slaying shocked and baffled friends and classmates at Jefferson and cast the campus into mourning.
"What a beautiful girl," said Miriam Massucci, who works at a flower shop across the street and saw Sullivan being loaded onto an ambulance. "She could have found the cure for something and now she's gone."
Sullivan, who was from the well-to-do suburban Philadelphia community of Bryn Mawr, died Monday at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, where she and her classmates made rounds as part of their third-year duties.
Friends and fellow students described her as friendly, popular, pretty, athletic and outgoing but offered little other information about her, saying Sullivan's family had asked them not to talk. Her parents did not return a call, nor did Ali's.
"Nader Ali? Why are these people in our country?"
"Ali was arrested Monday at his parents' home in New Jersey."
They may be in our country, but they are in my state!
Why isn't this headline Muslim kills Med School Co-ed?
I've got to get away from here, it's time for me to move to Jesusland.
Lea Sullivan... the victim is Jewish. This might be a hate crime murder.
Lea Sullivan... the victim is Jewish. What my relative who lives there told me.
No it's a politically incorrect combination of victim and perpetrator.
IF the perp had been just an Anglo white male, this would have been a hate-crime.
If the victim were a white Christian female withthis Muslim perp, we would not even be reading about it, as it is too commonplace for news.
Only if she were black or lesbian.
OK, so why dont we do what freepers do best. Lets put the local newspapers to task. Perhaps this is why noone is talking. Word of a hate crime would create an outrage and they are in fear of a backlash. But I say that if it is in fact a hate crime, backlash is just what is needed in this country! I'm e-mailing their local newspapers!
http://www.nbc10.com/news/3898508/detail.html
http://cf.nbc10.com/phi/sh/videoplayer/video.cfm?id=3902267&owner=phi
Video:
http://cf.nbc10.com/phi/sh/videoplayer/video.cfm?id=3902267&owner=phi
wonder if she dated him or something?
Unbelievable.
Yet another reason why we Red Staters despise the Blue States. Try this in Raleigh, NC or Amarillo, TX or Montgomery, AL........you'll get your head handed to you by the "shoppers".
"Police sources said that Ali is bipolar and came to Sullivan's house the day before he killed her. She called her parents, who are both psychologists and asked for their advice on what she should do if she saw him again."
Go to usatoday.com and drill down to the county red/blue map of PA. Philly is a speck of blue.
Pure Bipolar disorder doesn't usually lead to violence of this magnitude, there usually is underlying schizoaffective disorder that is involved.!
i.e. Ali is unable to control his behavior, therefore others will have to control his behavior for him.
Why women should support gun rights and Red State values.
Paying for Falluah or the death of Arafat;?
What a sad story!
It is unlikely that any psychologist in Philadelphia would give the correct advice, the advice I would give my daughters-"Aim for center mass, and keep squeezing the trigger until he's down".
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