This 40-year-old woman was found stabbed to death outside her home in Detroit.
The president of a progressive synagogue in Detroit, in the northern United States, who is also close to local Democratic Party elected officials, was found stabbed to death outside her home on Saturday, October 21, the press and police said. without specifying a motive.
When police and doctors were called to the scene in a neighborhood in this major Michigan city, they found a person “lying on the ground and unconscious” before they were “pronounced dead on the scene,” local police wrote in a press release.
“Multiple knife stabs”
The Detroit Free Press newspaper identified the victim as Samantha Woll, 40. “At the scene, police officers noticed a trail of blood that led them to the victim’s apartment, where the crime apparently occurred,” city police continued. The initial “examinations of the victim’s body revealed multiple stab wounds and the investigation was therefore entrusted to the criminal investigation department,” the police added, adding that “the motive for this murder remained unknown.”
The Isaac Agree Downtown Synagogue in Detroit said on its Facebook page that it was “shocked and saddened to learn of the sudden death of our board president, Samantha Woll,” without elaborating. According to the Detroit Free Press, Samantha Woll has been the leader of the Isaac Agree Downtown Synagogue since 2022, previously worked for Congresswoman Elissa Slotkin and participated in Michigan attorney Dana Nessel’s re-election campaign. Both women are Democrats.
“The nicest person I have ever met”
Dana Nessel spoke out personally on her X account (formerly Twitter), saying she was “shocked, saddened and horrified by the violent murder of Sam.”
“She was the kindest person I have ever met, driven by her genuine love for her community, her state and her country.”
“Sam truly relied on his faith and activism to create a better place to live for everyone,” the prosecutor said, without elaborating on the investigation that had just begun. The United States, particularly New York, has been rocked by demonstrations, tensions and some reports of violence between Jewish and Muslim groups, fueled by the Middle East war between Hamas and Israel.