Police: Attacker threw acid in Vancouver woman's face [UPDATE: False Report/Self-Inflicted Attack]

KOMO ^ | 8/31/2010

[markomalley]

VANCOUVER, Wash. – A bizarre attack sent a Vancouver woman to the hospital on Monday and police said they believe her attacker threw some kind of acid in her face.

Bethany Storro had no idea who the woman was who attacked her and no idea why someone picked her for an attack.

Storro, 28, doesn’t usually wear sunglasses but she bought a pair about an hour before the attack. Those glasses may have saved her eyesight.

She had stopped to get a coffee at a Starbucks near Esther Short Park at 8th and Columbia and was getting something out of her car when a woman came up and asked her if she wanted a drink.

Storro decline and that’s when she was hit with a cup of some sort of acid, burning her face and clothes.

Her family says she’s stable and is keeping a positive attitude. They say they are trying to make some sense of what happened.

“Who wakes up in the morning and says, ‘I’m going to go and burn somebody’s face with acid?’” said Storro’s mother, Nancy Neuwelt. “It’s
pretty bizarre. I don’t know what kind of a person - obviously, there’s something wrong. But we’re going to do what we need to do.”

Police don’t have any suspects.

The incident happened just after 7 p.m. Monday night, and police are hoping someone who was in the area at the time may remember seeing what happened and call them with a tip.

Storro is recovering at the burn center at Legacy Emanuel Hospital.

[markomalley]

A very similar attack occurred in Italy recently. I would look for a Muslim connection here, as well.

[Westbrook]

The first suspect in all senseless crimes against humanity must be the mohammedans.

The second suspect would be street gang initiations, brought to you by non-enforcement of immigration policy and generations of fatherless “welfare” babies.

[FroggyTheGremlim]

Acid in the face - that’s a jihadi tactic.

[Cindy]

A tiny sampler ON THE INTERNET:

http://www.memri.org/report/en/0/0/0/0/0/0/3184.htm

March 10, 2009
Special Dispatch No.2276

“Egyptian Cleric Safwat Higazi Calls to Shut Down Starbucks in the Arab and Islamic World, Saying: Their Logo is the Jewish Queen Esther”

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http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/turin/index?tab=articles
http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/shroudofturin/index?tab=articles

[Eye of Unk]

It does smell like a Sharia terrorist.

[Ronin]

What she was wearing at the time of the attack might give a clue. If she was dressed in ways the Muslim fanatics find offensive, it could be why she was selected as a target.

I am just very thankful she had those sunglasses on. I think her Guardian Angel was definitely looking after her.

[Cindy]

SNIPPET from post no. 1:

"She had stopped to get a coffee at a Starbucks near Esther Short Park at 8th and Columbia..."

[RadiationRomeo]

“Starbucks symbol is the jewish Queen Esther” and this Starbucks is near Esther Short Park. The attacker asks for a drink then attacks. That might be enough for a psycho and newby muslim. And I say newby because if they are this demented they would attack people right after conversion. They needed the conversion to give them the right. I wouldn't blame this on Islam, just a psychosis

[Smokin' Joe]

I wouldn't blame this on Islam, just a psychosis

There is a difference?

[DBrow]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/38949288/ns/us_news-crime_and_courts/

The attacker spoke to the victim first- Hey pretty lady do you want to drink this?

There could be a Starbucks connection. Or as someone said, gangs. Acid-throwing happens in the UK, too, but usually not in the face.

[RadiationRomeo]

I’m guessing paranoid schizophrenia. Needed muslim conversion as an excuse to act out. But then I’m an engineer and not a psychiatrist. (But I play one on TV)

[HiTech RedNeck]

So who specializes in alkali-throwing, then?

[DBrow]

“Police said the assailant was described as a black woman between 25 and 35, who wore a green shirt and khaki shorts, The Columbian reported. She had medium-length black hair that was pulled back.”

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/38949288/ns/us_news-crime_and_courts/

I doubt a recent Muslim convert would be wearing shorts, with no head cover at all. I understand the authorization to lie for Islam, the need to hide identity, but somehow this does not seem to me to be a shari’a crazed attacker.

[MissDairyGoodnessVT]

Prior to the revolution in Iran 30some years ago -jihad started EXACTLY this way on the streets of Teheran- This is a fact-lucky enough not to have been vicitmized by this horrible crime but saw it with my own eyes those women who were disfigured.

Jihad has started people...........

[DBrow]

Do we know if it’s acid or alkali? It dissolved her shirt, hinting at acid, plus, action was very fast, also hinting at acid. It would be nice to know what her shirt was made of. NaOH and KOH don’t eat polyester.

Not enough information yet to know what it was.

[calex59]

“Police said the assailant was described as a black woman between 25 and 35, who wore a green shirt and khaki shorts, The Columbian reported. She had medium-length black hair that was pulled back.”

Sounds more like your basic black on white crime that has intensified since Bozo took office.

[Wolfie]

Jeez, when you here hoof steps, don’t think zebra.

If this woman has a husband or boyfriend, ask him what he’s been up to lately and with whom.

[calex59]

Then why didn’t the woman throw the acid on the husband if that was the case. It is a black on white crime, simple as that and very obvious. These crimes have been increasing steadily since Bozo took office, or do you think when a bunch of people go around shouting “it’s beat whitey night” or a group of blacks go around randomly sucker punching whites that maybe these people’s spouses had something to do with it?

[Wolfie]

Cuz that’s not what crazy broads do.

[DBrow]

I suspect a recent divorce. Combining the mom’s last name and victim’s first name leads to a Bethany Neuwelt who graduated from a private Christian school in Idaho, Class of 2000. The mom said Bethany moved to Vancouver “for a fresh start”.

The mom works in a Vancouver Christian church. I think the victim’s dad is a physician, but that’s not clear.

I don’t see any strange links or associations here. This is probably a “random attack”, a term I dislike because it is not random from the perp’s viewpoint at all.