Kalamazoo woman murdered in Nepal
KALAMAZOO, Mich. (WOOD) A 25-year-old Kalamazoo woman who went missing in Nepal last month has been murdered, police there say.
Dahlia Yehia had been traveling in Nepal since July 20. Social media posts by family say they lost contact with her in early August.
On Friday, family members said they had been notified by the U.S. Embassy that Yehia had been murdered.
(An undated photo of Dahlia Yehia courtesy the Find Dahlia Facebook page .) Overseas media outlets report the killer isNarayan Prasad Paudel, who is from the area of Pokhara, Nepal. Citing a local police spokesman, The Himalayan Times reports Paudel admitted to killing Yehia as she slept.
Yehia first came into contact with Paudel in early August when he invited her via the Internet to stay with him at his house as part of an earthquake relief support program, according to The Himalayan Times. Other overseas media outlets have reported she was in Nepal to help victims of the April earthquake that devastated the county and left some 8,000 people dead .
The Himalayan Times says Yehia stayed with Paudel for three days before he killed her, beating her with a hammer and a lathi, which according to one online Nepali dictionary is a heavy stick or staff. Paudel reportedly told police that after the murder, he stuffed Yehias body into a bag and threw it into the nearby Seti River.
Her body has not been found and Paudels motive is not yet clear.
During Paudels interrogation, he told police he had to use the restroom and they removed his handcuffs, The Himalayan Times is reporting. He then somehow made it to the roof of the police station and jumped off. He broke his leg, but is expected to survive.
Yehias family posted a statement on Facebook after getting news of her death.
We are devastated by this senseless loss of a beautiful life, the post reads in part. For those who havent had the joy of spending time with Dahlia, know that she is a giver, lover, and humanitarian, who devoted her life to others less fortunate both domestic and abroad.
Even though Dahlia was taken from us much too soon, she surely made her mark on the world, and will be remembered lovingly by all of us, the post continued.
Yehia graduated from Kalamazoo College in 2011 and had a bachelors degree in painting, according to her LinkedIn profile. She was an art teacher at a school in Austin, Texas last year.
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What is the point of this article ? That traveling to far off countries to help in a relief effort might get you killed? That cute young women are prey? Should cute young women stay home the rest of their lives?
POS!
You can never be too careful and don't be foolish or naive. There are some really bad people in this world.
The young Jamaican man in NYC with a bright future.
The young girl studying on her mother's bed.
Just pitiful.
A story as old as man.
I'm very sorry to learn of this woman's death. Her family will be in my thoughts and prayers.
What I find to be a bit unusual is that the perp's motive is apparently not yet known.
I really hope NYS would reinstate the Death Penalty, These senseless killings needs to stop.. This young man had a bright future, now he is in a medically induced coma..he'll never be the same, I just pray for the families who grieve, I don't know this family but I grieve as a human being after hearing about all the shootings and killings..this needs to stop...
Cuomo Administration Lawyer Is Shot in Head Before West Indian Day Parade
The revelers were crowded onto Bedford Avenue in Brooklyn partaking in the annual West Indian American Day celebration early on Monday when the bullets began to fly in all directions.
A dispute, possibly between rival gangs, prompted the shootout, police officials said, endangering the lives of hundreds of innocent bystanders.
Among those caught in the crossfire was Carey Gabay, a lawyer with the administration of Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo , who had joined the festivities with his brother. Mr. Gabay, 43, was shot in the head and on Monday afternoon was described as not doing well by Mr. Cuomo, who spoke with reporters after visiting the lawyers bedside at Kings County Hospital Center. Mr. Gabay underwent surgery and was in critical condition Monday night.
The shooting was one of several violent episodes, including a fatal stabbing, in the hours before the annual West Indian American Day Parade in Brooklyn, a colorful event of flamboyant costumes and dancing that in years past has also been accompanied by bloodshed in the streets near the parade route.
Mr. Cuomo suggested that Mr. Gabay was a bystander and not an intended target. He said Mr. Gabay was out with his family celebrating Jouvert, a West Indian holiday that culminates in the parade.
In January, Mr. Gabay was appointed first deputy counsel for the Empire State Development Corporation, the states main economic development agency. Previously, he had been an assistant counsel to Mr. Cuomo, and before that, a banking and finance associate at the Jones Day law firm. Mr. Gabay grew up in public housing in the Bronx, the governor said. He graduated from Harvard University, where he was president of the Undergraduate Council, the student government, and also received his law degree from Harvard.
He could have been at any law firm he wanted to be, making multiples of what we paid him, Mr. Cuomo said. He worked for the state because he wanted to give back and he wanted to do the right thing.
Mr. Cuomo said he visited Mr. Gabays family at the hospital and, clearly shaken, described the tears and the frustration.
Im governor of New York and theres nothing I can say and theres nothing I can do, he said. And sometimes it just hurts.
There are a lot of really bad things going on around the world. In looking to see if there had been a reason given for this man killing this girl I ran into another article where in Guatemala female and a male robbed and shot a motorcycle taxi driver. As they were escaping she took a wrong turn and was surrounded by an angry mob who beat her and eventually set her on fire.
The police couldn't get to her to stop it. She burned to death in the middle of that crowd. There was a video except for the very last part. She was just alleged to have committed the crime.
I couldn't put it on here for obvious reasons. It's a dangerous world here whether we realize it or not and it is going to get a lot more dangerous before too long, but it is far worst in other places.
There are 7 billion people in the world and a lot of them are morons. Of course it is a dangerous place, at times.