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Acid attack on gorgeous college co-ed · Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

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Speaker 1: Crime Stories with Nancy Grace, twenty one years old. At
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Speaker 1: that age, I can still remember you feel like you
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Speaker 1: have your life in front of you, with dreams and
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Speaker 1: hopes and plans. It's hard for me to imagine what
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Speaker 1: this young girl, Nefia has been through to be in
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Speaker 1: college at an awesome New York university and you're heading
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Speaker 1: home and then out of the blue, a man appears
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Speaker 1: and throws a liquid into your face and you have
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Speaker 1: no idea who, why, or what. We now know it
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Speaker 1: was some sort of battery acid. Crime Stories with Nancy Grace.
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Speaker 1: I want justice. I want justice so deeply. I have
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Speaker 1: a little girl, she's thirteen. I have a little boy thirteen.
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Speaker 1: I cannot imagine the pain not only she but her
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Speaker 1: parents are going through and with us today, the mom
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Speaker 1: and this beautiful girl just twenty one. But we need you.
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Speaker 1: I'm Nancy Grace. This is Crime Stories. Thank you for
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Speaker 1: being with us here at Fox Nation and Serious X
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Speaker 1: one eleven. Listen, a college student is heading home, it
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Speaker 1: is eight thirty at night. Suddenly, out of nowhere, a
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Speaker 1: man comes up behind her. Then he does the unspeakable.
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Speaker 1: He throws a liquid substance into twenty one year old
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Speaker 1: Nafia Akrom's face. Nafia works part time as a pharmacy
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Speaker 1: tech and was coming home after a long shift. She
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Speaker 1: was getting out of the car and walking towards the
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Speaker 1: home on Long Island she lives with her parents. You
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Speaker 1: could see in the video the man comes sprinting from
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Speaker 1: this direction and throws acid right on her face. I
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Speaker 1: felt like it was kind of warm juice. It was
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Speaker 1: like a room temperature, and it didn't stick to my
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Speaker 1: face right away, didn't burn right away, So I just
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Speaker 1: thought I'd just been pranked. A couple of seconds later,
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Speaker 1: I'm walking down the driveway after he did that, and
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Speaker 1: my face starts burnie. At first, she thought she had
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Speaker 1: been pranked. Take a listen to more of what our
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Speaker 1: friends at Inside Edition learned. Do they know what kind
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Speaker 1: of acid? It's like the acid that they put in batteries.
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Speaker 1: I personally think that this was definitely premeditated and personal.
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Speaker 1: Do you think you were targeted? I think so. The
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Speaker 1: attack left TV personality Padma Lakshmi At shaken. Her driver
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Speaker 1: is no FIA's father. This Pakistani family is such a
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Speaker 1: nice family. I've known them for over a decade. They
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Speaker 1: don't even know if she'll be able to see properly
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Speaker 1: ever again, because she had contacts in and the acid
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Speaker 1: burned and melted the contacts into her eyes. With Me
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Speaker 1: and All Star Panel to make sense of what we
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Speaker 1: know so far, analyzing the clues left behind. Wendy Patrick,
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Speaker 1: California prosecutor, author of Red Flags. You can find her
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Speaker 1: at Wendy Patrick PhD dot com. She's also the host
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Speaker 1: of Today with Doctor Wendy KCBQ, San Diego. Doctor Jerry Krawsen, psychologist,
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Speaker 1: faculty Saint Leo University, Research consultant and author of Operation
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Speaker 1: s o S Practical Recommendations to help Stop Officers Suicide.
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Speaker 1: Karen L. Smith, forensic expert, Lecturer, University Florida and host
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Speaker 1: of Shattered Souls podcast. Spencer Coursen, Founder President Corson Security
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Speaker 1: Group at Courson Security Group dot com and author of
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Speaker 1: The Safety Sharp of Securities Experts Secrets for Staying Safe
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Speaker 1: in a Dangerous World. And Serena Fazan four time Emmy
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Speaker 1: Award winning anchor reporter Serena Fazzon Media. You can find
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Speaker 1: her at Serena Fazan dot Media and on her podcast
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Speaker 1: On the Record with Serena Fazan. But first joining us.
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Speaker 1: Sharena Muhammad, this is the victim's mother, and Nafia Crum.
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Speaker 1: Nafia and Sharena especially thank you for being with us. Nafia,
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Speaker 1: tell me what happened? Eight thirty in the evening. You're
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Speaker 1: leaving school, heading home where you live with your parents.
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Speaker 1: What happened? Back break in the car and my um
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Speaker 1: sash in the back seat? They winner on the car
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Speaker 1: and when I called you, they wearing I looked through
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Speaker 1: the right because the tuning room, and at this time
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Speaker 1: in my back I saw a male figure standing there
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Speaker 1: just looking at me, and I got a little creep out. Now,
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Speaker 1: hold on, hold on, Nafita right there? Are you telling
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Speaker 1: me you're in your car? I was leaving my car,
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Speaker 1: was like at the back seat, in the back seat
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Speaker 1: getting more stuff out. Okay, I'm having a hard time
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Speaker 1: hearing you. So you're you're leaving your car and you're
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Speaker 1: getting things out of the back seat. Is that what
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Speaker 1: you said? Yeah? Oh gosh, that's the time when you're
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Speaker 1: very defenseless, like people at malls getting stuff out of
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Speaker 1: their trunk or their back seat. You're not you don't
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Speaker 1: really know what going on to either side or behind you.
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Speaker 1: So you've been getting stuff in or out of your
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Speaker 1: back seat. And then what happened? If as I'm turning
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Speaker 1: around and leaving my car, I shut the door. I
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Speaker 1: turned to my right, and I see someone standing at
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Speaker 1: the end of my block just looking at me. I
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Speaker 1: got a little creeped out, so I started to walk
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Speaker 1: down my driveway very quickly, and that's when I heard
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Speaker 1: footsteps and running up behind me. So I turned around.
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Speaker 1: So you're already at home. You're at your parents' home, right, Okay,
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Speaker 1: all right? That helps me a lot to understand that
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Speaker 1: I knew you were leaving school and going toward your parents,
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Speaker 1: but you had made it there, got out of the car,
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Speaker 1: got stuff out of the back seat. You were getting
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Speaker 1: up and you see this guy at the end of
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Speaker 1: the block. What did he look like? And it couldn't
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Speaker 1: really see much because it was dark. It looked like
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Speaker 1: he had a dark creaming over his head, and his
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Speaker 1: arm looked like they were across in front of him.
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Speaker 1: That was all I saw from the distops that I
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Speaker 1: was at. Could you tell what color hair he had?
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Speaker 1: Was he why was he black? Anything? No? Nothing? I
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Speaker 1: couldn't see anything about his feet. Okay, Then what happened?
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Speaker 1: And I started to walk down my driveway very quickly
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Speaker 1: because I got to spoon because in our neighborhood, especially
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Speaker 1: like in March, it was cold. You don't see someone
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Speaker 1: walking around the block or anywhere like outside unless it's summer.
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Speaker 1: So that was just weird in itself. I started to
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Speaker 1: walk down the driveway very quickly, and I heard footsteps
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Speaker 1: running up behind me. So I turned around, and that's
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Speaker 1: when it happened. You say you turned around because you
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Speaker 1: heard footsteps, and that is when it happened. What happened.
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Speaker 1: I turned around and he was standing right in front
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Speaker 1: of meat, about like less than a foot away. He
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Speaker 1: had a cup in the can, and as soon as
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Speaker 1: I like tried to a closer look, he dashed something
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Speaker 1: in my face. I didn't know what it was at
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Speaker 1: the time. It kind of felt, like I said in
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Speaker 1: other interviews, like a warm news because that's the only
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Speaker 1: way to really describe it, like, you know, the substance
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Speaker 1: of the liquid. And then I started to walk down
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Speaker 1: my job really closer to my back door, and I
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Speaker 1: was just like, okay, like what was that? Because I
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Speaker 1: thought like maybe he was going to attack me or
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Speaker 1: kidnapped me or something, but like to just dash a
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Speaker 1: liquid in my face and run away. I was like,
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Speaker 1: that's weird, and then a couple of seconds later started
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Speaker 1: to burn. So that's when I started to tif question.
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Speaker 1: Do you remember what the cup looked like? Was it
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Speaker 1: an open container? Did it have some sort of a
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Speaker 1: lid on it? No, it was an open continuer and
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Speaker 1: it was like it was really big, white fully cup,
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Speaker 1: a really big Are you talking like a coffee cup? Yeah,
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Speaker 1: like one of those very big or a cup from
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Speaker 1: a fast you Yeah, exactly the ones you could get
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Speaker 1: where I'm going to say, the one you to get
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Speaker 1: at like seven eleven or like a debby at where
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Speaker 1: at like seven eleven, like a big gulp cup type thing,
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Speaker 1: didn't have a handle on it. No at terrible okay,
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Speaker 1: star foam. So when you're saying a cup, you mean
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Speaker 1: like a to go cup from McDonald's or something, not
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Speaker 1: a coffee cup with a handle. No, okay, I'm asking
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Speaker 1: for a reason. I'm asking for a reason. And M.
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Speaker 1: Spencer Corson, founder and president of Course and Security Group,
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Speaker 1: to me, that's critical information to you? Why that means
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Speaker 1: this person that through acid in a FIA's face and
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Speaker 1: my mind came from somewhere nearby, because how can you
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Speaker 1: travel with an open container a battery acid? You're exactly
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Speaker 1: correct answer this pre planned act and whether or not
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Speaker 1: that acid was already in the cup or if he
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Speaker 1: made it on the fly just prior to the attack.
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Speaker 1: This was a clearly identified and researched and you know
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Speaker 1: this the retribution of a grievance held by this by
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Speaker 1: this predator. But yet she didn't recognize him. Time stories
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Speaker 1: with Nancy Grace. Let me go back to Nafia Akrom
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Speaker 1: joining us along with her mother, Shrina Muhammad Nafia. When
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Speaker 1: he got up close to you, was there any recognition?
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Speaker 1: Do you think you know him or have seen him?
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Speaker 1: Any hint of recognition on your part? Well, because when
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Speaker 1: he got close to me, I tried to get a
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Speaker 1: little closure of a look, and I remember as soon
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Speaker 1: as I started to squint and I moved my head
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Speaker 1: a little closer to him to see his face, that's
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Speaker 1: when he threw the liquid in my face, and that's
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Speaker 1: how it ended up getting in my eye. What did
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Speaker 1: you do? Van? I turned around and continued walking down
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Speaker 1: the driveway. A little shock because that's not what I expected.
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Speaker 1: And then it started to burn, so I began to panic,
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Speaker 1: and then I ran to the back door where my
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Speaker 1: dad was standing in the kitchen, and I told him
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Speaker 1: what happened. I was crying, and then he realized. He
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Speaker 1: said that he saw like my face turned gray and
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Speaker 1: it looked like there was blood dripping down my shoulder,
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Speaker 1: which actually was just the color of the acid on
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Speaker 1: my coat, but it looked red. So he freaked out
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Speaker 1: and that's when he started screaming. For like, my mom
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Speaker 1: took call nine one one. She was in the bathroom.
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Speaker 1: She came dashing out and then they go start too.
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Speaker 1: Started to take off my coat and undress me so
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Speaker 1: that they could wash off my face and stuff while
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Speaker 1: the ambulance came. Did they wash off your face? Yeah?
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Speaker 1: They began to do that in the kitchen sink, and
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Speaker 1: then my dad was on the phone with the cops.
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Speaker 1: So her mom took me in the bathtub and started
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Speaker 1: to throw water in my face with the cups. He
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Speaker 1: told me to sit down and she was washing my face,
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Speaker 1: and as she was doing that, I remember telling her
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Speaker 1: that I couldn't breathe because my tongue started to get
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Speaker 1: swollen and I began to drool. I just thank god,
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Speaker 1: you're alive. I thank god, you're alive. Thank you. Yeah, Nafia,
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Speaker 1: have you gotten any of your eyesight back yet? It's
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Speaker 1: still singing on before I can see colors, but nothing
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Speaker 1: other than that. It's a very ter me and blurning still,
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Speaker 1: but that's only in the right eye. The left gy
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Speaker 1: is okay with me? Is and if his mother or Sharena,
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Speaker 1: Miss Muhammad, I'm so sorry for what your daughter and
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Speaker 1: your family are living through right now. If there's any
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Speaker 1: way we can help you, we will do it. The
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Speaker 1: tipline everyone five one six five seven three eighty eight
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Speaker 1: hundred repeat five one six five seventy three eighty eight hundred.
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Speaker 1: This is not just a headline. This is not the
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Speaker 1: plot of a movie or a TV crime show. This
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Speaker 1: is real with real people and real hurting that are
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Speaker 1: looking for answers. If you know anything or think you
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Speaker 1: know anything, please dial five one six five seven three
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Speaker 1: eighty eight hundred. There is also a go fund me
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Speaker 1: help Naphia acid attack survivor. Miss Muhammad. Please tell me
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Speaker 1: what you recall of that evening. Thank you for allowing
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Speaker 1: us and inviting us to her show. I means a
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Speaker 1: lot to us. So I came home after a twelve
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Speaker 1: hour shift. I picked my daughter up from where she
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Speaker 1: had completed a ten hour shift t trail of home,
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Speaker 1: and so I went in like just almost a minute
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Speaker 1: before her two years of washroom case. She came in
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Speaker 1: behind me, and as she explained what happened, I was
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Speaker 1: in the washroom and I heard my husband screaming call
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Speaker 1: nine one one, And as Snaphia explained what happened, it
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Speaker 1: was We still feel like we're living a dream. I
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Speaker 1: still feel numb. I still cannot believe where this is
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Speaker 1: our actual real life we're experiencing. It's not getting any
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Speaker 1: easier for us. My daughter is having a lot of complications.
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Speaker 1: She cannot even eat food, be still on liquids. We
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Speaker 1: had not anticipated all of this major complication and complexity
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Speaker 1: of the damage that the acid has caused. I don't know,
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Speaker 1: we don't know how long it's going to take. She
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Speaker 1: will never be the same again. And as you mentioned,
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Speaker 1: she's a young girl, twenty one years old. She's my
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Speaker 1: only child. And we're just playing and begging anybody's help
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Speaker 1: if they have any clue to please help us. That's
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Speaker 1: the main most important how we can get and also prayers,
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Speaker 1: and we're forever grateful for everyone to help us to
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Speaker 1: go fundly because we're I had no idea it was
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Speaker 1: going to be so costly and complex, and we have
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Speaker 1: no idea of not working. My daughter is not working.
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Speaker 1: She's everything to me and I don't care about working.
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Speaker 1: I want to be here for my daughter. She needs
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Speaker 1: me and she's all I huh. So I want to
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Speaker 1: thank everyone and please beg everyone to come out and
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Speaker 1: call that number if they have any clue that can
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Speaker 1: help us find this monster that it is to my daughter.
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Speaker 1: You're hearing the voice of Shoeini Muhammad. She is the
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Speaker 1: mother of Nafia Ikram. Please help her. The tip line
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Speaker 1: is five one six five seven three eighty eight hundred
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Speaker 1: repeat five one six five seven three eighty eight hundred.
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Speaker 1: You can go to crime online dot com and find
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Speaker 1: out all about the case, the tip line and they
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Speaker 1: go fund me, they go find me. Help enough the
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Speaker 1: acid attack survivor take a listen to our friends at
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Speaker 1: Inside Edition. Neighbors told police and now saw County, New
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Speaker 1: York they saw three men sitting in this red car
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Speaker 1: outside Nafia's house before the attack. She believes it was personal.
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Speaker 1: Do you know who did this? We do not know
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Speaker 1: who did this again, but we will. We will find
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Speaker 1: out who did this. Nafia faces a long road of recovery,
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Speaker 1: and she says she is actually grateful because it could
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Speaker 1: have been worse. I'll get through it with me today,
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Speaker 1: Nafia Ekram, She says, quote, I'll get through it, and
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Speaker 1: it's grateful because it could have been worse. To Serena Fazan,
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Speaker 1: four time Amy Award winning TV anchor and reporter host
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Speaker 1: of On the Record with Serena Fazan, you know, Serena,
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Speaker 1: I've seen a lot of crime victims in my lifetime.
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Speaker 1: And her words, her simple words, I'll get through it.
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Speaker 1: I know. I know. Nancy inspire me so much and
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Speaker 1: I want to help her so much. What do we know, Serena,
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Speaker 1: Just tell me anything. We can go on, Nancy, this
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Speaker 1: is something too that you and I both so relate to.
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Speaker 1: We both have daughters right around the same age. I
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Speaker 1: only have one daughter as well. Here's what we know, though,
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Speaker 1: and here's what I'm very very curious about. This horrible,
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Speaker 1: horrific attack happens on March seventeenth. Why are we hearing
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Speaker 1: more about it now? That's my question. Why didn't police
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Speaker 1: come out earlier to talk about this and also the
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Speaker 1: question I have to this does sound again very targeted.
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Speaker 1: Nafia said that she had not been in any type
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Speaker 1: of romantic relationship or had any type of partner and
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Speaker 1: those of no one who would have done this to her.
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Speaker 1: But my question is for something like this to happen,
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Speaker 1: there had to be people that police interviewed crime stories
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Speaker 1: with Nancy Grace. By all accounts, the perp was wearing
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Speaker 1: not only a hoodie, and you can see the video
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Speaker 1: of watched it over and over and over. You see
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Speaker 1: Afia Ecrumb outside her car, and you see in the
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Speaker 1: video a person running up directly to her, just as
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Speaker 1: she describes hearing the footsteps running up and thereby a
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Speaker 1: white picket fence, literally a white picket fence, which you
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Speaker 1: think is like the all American dream. A house, a
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Speaker 1: yard and a white picket fence runs up to it.
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Speaker 1: There's cars parked along the street. It's a neighborhood, a
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Speaker 1: residential area. She's not in some seedy part of town.
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Speaker 1: It's a lovely area. And then suddenly you see the
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Speaker 1: figure running up directly to her. She's walking away, her
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Speaker 1: back is to him, but he goes for her, and
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Speaker 1: when she turns. That's when he douses her with kind
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Speaker 1: of a white star foam to go cup. We think
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Speaker 1: is a description I'm getting in her face, covering her
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Speaker 1: with battery acid, burns and burning her eyes. She cannot
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Speaker 1: see properly, she can't eat, and it is a miracle
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Speaker 1: she is alive. To you, and if I understand, your
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Speaker 1: father rushed you to the hospital and they got there
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Speaker 1: within five minutes. They couldn't go with the Indian rooms
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Speaker 1: from the COVID, but they came afterwards to the er Well.
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Speaker 1: I was in the Charm Union. It may have saved
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Speaker 1: your life that your father drove the instead of waiting
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Speaker 1: for an ambulance. Guys, take a listen to our friend
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Speaker 1: James four Picks. Eleven surveillance video captured the March seventeenth attack.
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Speaker 1: Police say that a thin man six feet two inches
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Speaker 1: tall sneaked up and attacked Ikram with a cup of
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Speaker 1: what they call a hazardous substance. Ran behind me and
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Speaker 1: didn't say anything, waited from you to turn around and
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Speaker 1: just threw it in. She's spent the last month in
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Speaker 1: medical care. I think this through out to you. Karen Smith,
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Speaker 1: Forensics expert Lecturer, University of Florida. The guy's got on
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Speaker 1: a hoodie and gloves. And if he did he have
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Speaker 1: was there any emblem on the hoodie like a school
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Speaker 1: or a sports team. No, I couldn't see. It was
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Speaker 1: very dark. It looked like it was a dark hoodie
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Speaker 1: and clean. The only thing I noticed like he had
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Speaker 1: like a straight going down the right and left shoulder
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Speaker 1: of the body. That was good. Do you mean down
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Speaker 1: the arms are down the shoulders arms, Yeah, from the
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Speaker 1: shoulder down to the room. A stripe going down the arms.
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Speaker 1: I'm not saying it's Adidas, but you know how they
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Speaker 1: have a stripe going down the side of the pants.
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Speaker 1: And the cup again, the cup, do you think it
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Speaker 1: was a plain white styrofoam cup. Yeah, that's what it
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Speaker 1: looked like. Did he throw the cup down or did
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Speaker 1: he run with it? You run with it? He didn't
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Speaker 1: drop it. This is what we know. The guy is
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Speaker 1: about six feet two and he's wearing a hoodie with
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Speaker 1: stripes down the side. The hoodie's over his face and
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Speaker 1: he's wearing gloves. That tells me Karen Smith, as Spencer
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Speaker 1: Courson was saying earlier, does he ever around the or
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Speaker 1: how else? Because he carry an open container full of
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Speaker 1: battery acid unless he drove a car there right parked
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Speaker 1: around the corner, poured the battery acid while in the car,
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Speaker 1: and it snuck up on her. That's right. There's reports
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Speaker 1: of a red four door sedan that they're looking for,
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Speaker 1: and that's a part of the flyer for this case.
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Speaker 1: And you know, Nancy, the first place I would start
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Speaker 1: as rental car agencies. Dogs don't use their own cars.
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Speaker 1: I would start with rental car agencies. And a question
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Speaker 1: of the timeline that I have a styrofoam cup and
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Speaker 1: you're dealing with what she described as battery acid. That
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Speaker 1: would probably be something like sulfuric acid. Styrofoam cups well,
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Speaker 1: eat through acid will melt through them. So we're dealing
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Speaker 1: with a very tight timeline. Was the bottle in the car?
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Speaker 1: They poured it in the styrofoam cup and then ran
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Speaker 1: down the streets. This is a very tight timeline that
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Speaker 1: they're working with. So I'm hoping that you know, maybe
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Speaker 1: look at cool supply stores, auto supply dealers. Yeah, where
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Speaker 1: do you even get battery acid? Or why would you
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Speaker 1: get battery acid at a pool supply store? Yeah? Not
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Speaker 1: a pul supplant I'm sorry, auto supplies, yes, like an AutoZone. Right.
24:12
Speaker 1: Was he a kem lab worker? Did he work in
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Speaker 1: an auto zone? Did he work in a garage somewhere
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Speaker 1: that has these things available? So it's going to be
24:18
Speaker 1: a little bit of a boots on the ground gumshoe detective.
24:21
Speaker 1: Some work needs to be done here with that. You
24:23
Speaker 1: said red sedan, which typically means a red four door, right,
24:27
Speaker 1: that's right. Normally what we're talking about when we not
24:30
Speaker 1: an suv, not a minivan, not a geek, not a truck,
24:34
Speaker 1: a regular sedan. Right. The picture they have online, it
24:39
Speaker 1: looks like it maybe a Toyota or a Nissan, but
24:41
Speaker 1: it's a four door, red sedan four door, that's right.
24:44
Speaker 1: I thought Nissa one I saw it. But another issue
24:47
Speaker 1: is where did they get the battery acid? That would
24:51
Speaker 1: make me go to every AutoZone and auto repair shop
24:57
Speaker 1: in that area to try to find out. Another thing
25:01
Speaker 1: I'm curious about to Spencer Corson is ring doorbeil cams.
25:07
Speaker 1: You know, police have access to about eighty percent of
25:10
Speaker 1: those right now, and you could see what car he
25:14
Speaker 1: got into. I wonder if the police have checked that
25:16
Speaker 1: in the neighborhood, not only did that, Nancy, but in
25:19
Speaker 1: addition to all those other places you can get battery asked,
25:23
Speaker 1: you can get acid at Target Low's any home supply store.
25:26
Speaker 1: But to your point about the importance of ring video cameras,
25:29
Speaker 1: this was not the first time that perpetrator was at
25:33
Speaker 1: this residence. At some point, some research and planning had
25:36
Speaker 1: to have been done so that he knew where to
25:38
Speaker 1: pre stage so that he could come up behind her.
25:41
Speaker 1: So those video cameras, while it's great that they captured
25:44
Speaker 1: the initial incident, the historic record of those cameras will
25:47
Speaker 1: also provide t clues as to who this individual was.
25:51
Speaker 1: I want to think about the ring doorbell aspect to
25:54
Speaker 1: Sharina Mohammed. This is Nafia's mother, Miss Muhammed. Have the
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Speaker 1: police shared with you if they are trying to get
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Speaker 1: neighborhood surveillance. Yes, they did mention they burn around the
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Speaker 1: neighborhood and check the neighborhood cameras. They did say that, well,
26:11
Speaker 1: I mean the guy had to run to somewhere. Did
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Speaker 1: nobody's camera pick up where he ran to, Miss Muhammad?
26:19
Speaker 1: They didn't. They did not give us any information. They
26:23
Speaker 1: just keep telling us they don't have any lydia. It
26:26
Speaker 1: is very unclear if Nafea will regain her vision. Ever,
26:30
Speaker 1: the ASCID caused her context to melt into her eyes,
26:35
Speaker 1: is my understanding. We don't know the motivation. I'm looking
26:40
Speaker 1: right at the vehicle and you can see it. It's
26:44
Speaker 1: been released by Crime Stoppers and the Nassau County Police
26:48
Speaker 1: Department and you can find it at crime online dot com.
26:51
Speaker 1: The exact car. Another issue I'm wondering about Wendy Pastrick.
26:55
Speaker 1: I mean, for Pete's sake, maybe they should consult Target
26:58
Speaker 1: in Walmart because they seem to catch every detail of
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Speaker 1: what's going on in their store. Why can't we enhance
27:04
Speaker 1: that tag plight. I think eventually we'll be able to
27:07
Speaker 1: not only do all of the clues follow up that
27:10
Speaker 1: we've discussed already, but I think they're also going to
27:12
Speaker 1: maybe decide this is somebody that knew what time she
27:15
Speaker 1: got home because the fact that when she was getting
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Speaker 1: out of her car and Nefia, you are in my prayers,
27:20
Speaker 1: you and your loving family, But you describe getting out
27:23
Speaker 1: of your car being surprisingly observant. After a ten hour shift,
27:27
Speaker 1: you noticed something out of place, this guy waiting there,
27:31
Speaker 1: which is what it sounds like so maybe it's more
27:33
Speaker 1: we talk about disgruntled clients and disgruntled professional contacts that
27:38
Speaker 1: we don't know about. I mean, half the people that
27:40
Speaker 1: are stopped don't even know who their spin offers are,
27:43
Speaker 1: only to find that there's some sort of a professional connection. Maybe,
27:46
Speaker 1: in addition to enhancing the evidence, as Nancy points out
27:49
Speaker 1: that I hope the police are doing, maybe they're also
27:52
Speaker 1: going to figure out who professionally might know your hours,
27:55
Speaker 1: your shift, or have some unspoken grievance that waited for you,
28:00
Speaker 1: as you mentioned. So I'm looking forward to finding out
28:02
Speaker 1: those clues as well. Take a listen to our friends
28:04
Speaker 1: at ABC seven. Police have increased the reward for information
28:08
Speaker 1: leading to the arrest and conviction of this individual from
28:11
Speaker 1: five thousand dollars to twenty thousand dollars. They are still
28:15
Speaker 1: trying to figure out a possible motive. We have no
28:20
Speaker 1: evidence at this time to say it was a hate crime.
28:24
Speaker 1: We have no evans at this time to say that
28:26
Speaker 1: it was not a hate crime. We treat off victims
28:30
Speaker 1: the same. Twenty one year old Hofster pre med student
28:32
Speaker 1: in Nofia Ikram believes she was targeted in the March
28:35
Speaker 1: seventeenth attack, but she doesn't know why. I was in
28:38
Speaker 1: the ambulance and I felt my chest being ripped out
28:41
Speaker 1: of my soul. That's how much pain I was in.
28:43
Speaker 1: Investigators are testing the substance to figure out what exactly
28:46
Speaker 1: it was. Ikram suffered first and second degree burns and
28:49
Speaker 1: can't see out of her right eye. Both parents received
28:52
Speaker 1: and try to help the daughter. She screamed for help.
28:54
Speaker 1: They received burns at a hand. Also, when the acid
28:58
Speaker 1: was thrown into Naphia's face, it caused her to scream
29:03
Speaker 1: and then the acid got into her mouth. Her tongue
29:07
Speaker 1: and throat were burned as a result. But hey, you're
29:11
Speaker 1: interested in twenty grand anybody, because the reward for information
29:18
Speaker 1: leading to the arrest and conviction of this monster, this ghoul,
29:26
Speaker 1: this devil straight from hell is now up to twenty
29:32
Speaker 1: thousand dollars twenty thousand dollars for information helping to solve
29:39
Speaker 1: this brutal crime on a beautiful young girl going into medicine.
29:46
Speaker 1: Tipline five one, six, five, seven, three eighty eight hundred
30:03
Speaker 1: Crime stories with Nancy Grace to doctor Jory Crawsen, psychologist,
30:12
Speaker 1: faculty Saint Leo University and author doctor Jory. He did
30:19
Speaker 1: not want to kill her, He did not want to
30:22
Speaker 1: sex assault her or rape her. He did not want
30:25
Speaker 1: to steal from her. That's really narrowing down the motives, right, Yes,
30:31
Speaker 1: it is, and especially the choice of weapons, which is
30:34
Speaker 1: the acid that's meant to cause pain and inflict disfigurement
30:39
Speaker 1: and disfigurement. Yes, And so you know that really does
30:43
Speaker 1: narrow down for a profile. It could be somebody that
30:46
Speaker 1: just felt slighted by her in some capacity, not to
30:51
Speaker 1: necessary a relationship, but you know, some person that wanted
30:57
Speaker 1: to injure her to this level of severity. You know,
31:00
Speaker 1: he fled in a red twenty thirteen to fifteen Nissan Altima,
31:07
Speaker 1: a red Nissan Ultima twenty thirteen to fifteen. And you
31:12
Speaker 1: know how they know that. I learned this as a prosecutor.
31:16
Speaker 1: When I first went to homicide, I walked through the
31:20
Speaker 1: car theft division and they have stacks and stacks of
31:24
Speaker 1: photo albums every year or other year. The tail lights,
31:30
Speaker 1: the front lights, something on a car is redesigned, I think,
31:35
Speaker 1: simply for the sake of change. And by that simple redesign,
31:39
Speaker 1: say of a tail light, you can determine the make
31:43
Speaker 1: model a year, A particular car was released twenty thirteen
31:48
Speaker 1: to fifteen Nissan Ultima, according to police. Now, I want
31:53
Speaker 1: to go back to the possibility that this is targeted,
31:56
Speaker 1: which I think it is. Nafia is with us. She's
32:00
Speaker 1: speaking very faintly, so listen very carefully, Nafia, and to
32:06
Speaker 1: your mom Sharina, thank you for being with us. Nafia.
32:10
Speaker 1: You're in school. Do you know of anyone that you
32:15
Speaker 1: have rejected or somebody that has a crush on you
32:19
Speaker 1: or someone you think it's harmless but you don't really
32:22
Speaker 1: know them that are always hanging around. No, especially since
32:28
Speaker 1: because of COVID the classes were annoying, so I wasn't
32:32
Speaker 1: really going into classes or anything like that to be
32:35
Speaker 1: around people from your school. How about work? No, I
32:40
Speaker 1: mean possibly because I speak to so many people and
32:44
Speaker 1: to be basis, but I've never had any altercation with anyone,
32:49
Speaker 1: so I don't think it would be an altercation necessarily.
32:54
Speaker 1: I mean, Sharena, your daughter is beautiful. There are wackos
33:00
Speaker 1: out there. They get crushes with absolutely no suggestion from
33:06
Speaker 1: the woman that they're interested, or sometimes the woman doesn't
33:10
Speaker 1: even know someone has a crush, but they do. Right,
33:14
Speaker 1: And I'm just thinking Straina, Where does your daughter work?
33:19
Speaker 1: She works on CBS to tech. She works involved in
33:24
Speaker 1: so she sees people every day that she doesn't really know.
33:30
Speaker 1: Take a listen to our friends Sefan Kim, ABC seven.
33:35
Speaker 1: My advice is, could surrender yourself now because we're coming
33:37
Speaker 1: for you. The Nassau County Police Commissioner were the message
33:40
Speaker 1: for the man seeing in this video committing an unthinkable
33:43
Speaker 1: hanous act throwing some kind of hazardous corrosive liquid in
33:47
Speaker 1: the fia it Crumb's face. Police now in a man
33:51
Speaker 1: hunt and releasing new leads. The vehicle that we have
33:54
Speaker 1: on video at multiple locations is a two twenty thirteenth
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Speaker 1: twenty fifteen red Nissan Altima with yellow New York plates.
34:06
Speaker 1: The twenty one year old pre met student at Hofstra University,
34:09
Speaker 1: telling I went this news last night. She noticed the
34:11
Speaker 1: suspect as soon as she got home that night. I
34:14
Speaker 1: see someone standing at the end of the walk by
34:17
Speaker 1: the stop sign, just looking at me, and I thought
34:20
Speaker 1: that was really weird because, especially in our neighborhood, it's
34:24
Speaker 1: a very quiet, and being that it was like March,
34:28
Speaker 1: it's cold, especially at night, you don't see people walking around.
34:31
Speaker 1: Why did they know what time I'd be home. It
34:34
Speaker 1: was like they were waiting for me. That's more information.
34:37
Speaker 1: New York Plates, New York Plights on a red Nissan
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Speaker 1: Altima twenty thirteen to twenty fifteen, Karen Smith, That's a
34:45
Speaker 1: lot of information. That's fantastic information. And I'm going to
34:49
Speaker 1: walk back my theory about the rental car because of
34:52
Speaker 1: twenty thirteen to twenty fifteen, no rental car agency is
34:55
Speaker 1: going to have a car that old. You know, it's
34:57
Speaker 1: going to belong to somebody. Somebody has that car registered
35:00
Speaker 1: in their name. I'm really hoping that they can enhance
35:03
Speaker 1: that license flight somehow too. Nafi, how has this changed
35:09
Speaker 1: your life? Honestly, it's changed my life in every possible way.
35:14
Speaker 1: As a big bolt. The main thing in the beginning
35:18
Speaker 1: was that I couldn't see out of my right eye,
35:21
Speaker 1: and I thought that that was bad. But now like
35:24
Speaker 1: the fact that I can't really like I live on
35:28
Speaker 1: protein shakes. I struggle to even like have raman noodles,
35:35
Speaker 1: like I can't even meet that. Oh, just basic things
35:39
Speaker 1: like I love seeing, like choose it and like sooner sandwiches.
35:43
Speaker 1: I can't have anything that's even as sauces r They
35:47
Speaker 1: just look what on my throat. So that's the major thing.
35:51
Speaker 1: And then I don't work anymore, I don't go to school.
35:55
Speaker 1: I used to exercise a lot, I used to have
35:58
Speaker 1: a life outside of you know, work. I used to
36:01
Speaker 1: have a social life, not partying and stuff like that.
36:04
Speaker 1: But I just mean, like something simple is going out
36:07
Speaker 1: to get ice creams. I'm so traumatized now I wouldn't go.
36:11
Speaker 1: Or like walking around the block because I saw that
36:15
Speaker 1: man standing at the end of my walk is just
36:17
Speaker 1: traumatizing to me, like being in my own backyard alone,
36:21
Speaker 1: traumatizing because this is what happened. Different forts Sharina Muhammad.
36:28
Speaker 1: This is Nephia's mother. What are the doctors saying, Well,
36:34
Speaker 1: it's going to be a long road. They're treating her.
36:40
Speaker 1: She had eyelid surgery or less any day, because so
36:44
Speaker 1: the healing process is causing a lot of scoring and
36:49
Speaker 1: things are getting shifted in her face, her eyes, the
36:53
Speaker 1: same problem with her throat. So she's going to have
36:57
Speaker 1: multiple surgery stepped by step. See how it's feeling and progressing. Unfortunately,
37:05
Speaker 1: we did not anticipate such degree of damage, and we're
37:10
Speaker 1: really shocked. And my daughter is getting more devastated every
37:14
Speaker 1: day as more things are getting complicated, they cannot predict
37:20
Speaker 1: and give us they definite answer as so what will happen.
37:25
Speaker 1: They just have to explain one day at the time,
37:30
Speaker 1: one procedure at a time. They're going to try to,
37:33
Speaker 1: you know, do the eye surgery and then check her
37:36
Speaker 1: carnia see any vision comes back. So at this point
37:40
Speaker 1: in time, we do not have any definite diagnosis of
37:44
Speaker 1: what's going to happen to her, which is very devastating
37:48
Speaker 1: to us. For those of you listening now, if you
37:52
Speaker 1: have information or think you have information, we beg you
37:56
Speaker 1: to call five one six five seven three eight hundred
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Speaker 1: five one six five seventy three eight eight hundred or
38:05
Speaker 1: go to the go fund me. They desperately need our help.
38:09
Speaker 1: Help Nafia in a f as in Frank I a
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Speaker 1: h help Nafia acid attack survivor get justice it gofund
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Speaker 1: me Nafia. What do you miss the most right now?
38:32
Speaker 1: Eating what I want to eat? But because honestly, like young,
38:38
Speaker 1: my face is a little different right now, the skin
38:42
Speaker 1: heal the fact that like I have to watch my
38:46
Speaker 1: parents eat certainting, like yesterday they had pizza and I
38:50
Speaker 1: was just saying, like I miss eating that, you know
38:54
Speaker 1: could honestly because of the fact that I'm pre med.
38:58
Speaker 1: I'm going to share a like the whole fact, which is,
39:02
Speaker 1: let's say, like you're depressed or you're feeling down. You
39:06
Speaker 1: know how people say, like if you eat ice cream
39:08
Speaker 1: or chocolate, you'll cheer up. That's because eating something you
39:13
Speaker 1: enjoy releases dope mean in your brain, which is critical
39:19
Speaker 1: to your mood. So like, for example, if I'm craving
39:23
Speaker 1: Chipotle and I go get Chipotle and I eat it,
39:27
Speaker 1: the dopeine levels in my brain are gonna go higher,
39:30
Speaker 1: which will increase my levels of happiness. So let's say
39:34
Speaker 1: like I look in the mirror and I remember that
39:37
Speaker 1: my vision is horrible and my face is messed up.
39:41
Speaker 1: At least I can eat my Chipotle and a little
39:43
Speaker 1: bit of my happiness will be there. But the fact
39:46
Speaker 1: that I crave certain things where I see my parents
39:50
Speaker 1: eat certain things that I can't have. Like two nights ago,
39:52
Speaker 1: I had a dream that I was eating something that
39:55
Speaker 1: I loved to eat, and then I woke up and
39:57
Speaker 1: I remembered I'm having such high time swallowing that this
40:02
Speaker 1: is my reality. And then I read that even before
40:07
Speaker 1: this happened. I'm sorry. Before the swallowing issue happened, I
40:12
Speaker 1: was in the hospital because of the fact that they
40:15
Speaker 1: had me on sterres and stuff. The information has been
40:18
Speaker 1: as bad, it got a little better, so when I
40:21
Speaker 1: came home, I was eating a lot better and then
40:23
Speaker 1: in a downhill. But even before the swallowing issue happened,
40:27
Speaker 1: the vision, like I've said, was the vat issue for me.
40:30
Speaker 1: But now this it just makes me a lot more
40:32
Speaker 1: because because like I said, food contributes to our happiness,
40:35
Speaker 1: bubbles and our breath, so that's definitely something. Nafia, you
40:40
Speaker 1: said that your face is different. What do you mean?
40:44
Speaker 1: I don't look the same at all the way I
40:48
Speaker 1: used to look before. My face now is just complete
40:52
Speaker 1: and it's gonna take a long time to heal. I
40:55
Speaker 1: know all heal, but like the skin color is very red,
41:00
Speaker 1: it's very swollen. Oh, I'll just listen to from who who?
41:06
Speaker 1: Who would do this? We wait as just as some faults,
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Speaker 1: and in the meantime we continue to pray. Goodbye friend,