I know there’s a temptation to blame this on the current conflict in the Middle East, but I’ll repeat what I’ve said in one of the other threads: the sad reality is that most women are murdered by men they know, and primarily by current or former intimate partners.
There isn’t anything to suggest that the motive for this crime was the conflict in the Middle East. However, even if we knew for a fact that the crime was committed by someone she knew, we couldn’t rule that out because she worked to bridge the gap between the Jewish and Muslim communities.
Woll was co-chair of the American Jewish Committee’s ACCESS Detroit Young Leadership Program and founder of the Muslim-Jewish Forum of Detroit. In 2017 she was selected by the Detroit Jewish News as one of their “36 under 36”.
In 2015, in the wake of the November 2015 Paris attacks, she helped bring high school students of Muslim and Jewish faith together through an essay and art contest in a public event at Wayne State University organized through Greater Detroit Muslim Jewish Solidarity Council.[3]
Knowing more about the neighborhood (thank you, @TinyPizza) and having had more time to think about it, I’m still inclined to see this as a crime of passion. If it was a “kill any Jew” thing, they’d have targeted an area with more Jews. If it was “kill this particular person”, they could have tried to find an area with easier access and less Ring doorbells. If it was premeditated, a gun would be a more likely weapon.
Whether the precise “passion” involved was 'how dare you reject my advances ’ or ‘why do you talk about the suffering of the Gazans during my visit’, I can’t say. But my impression is that it was a spur-of-the-moment thing (poor choice of location and weapon), vs a targeted killing.
Knowing more about the neighborhood (thank you, @TinyPizza) and having had more time to think about it, I’m still inclined to see this as a crime of passion.
I think that is the most probable scenario.
I don’t think there is enough information to draw any conclusions about what the motive was or was not.
There isn’t anything to suggest that the motive for this crime was the conflict in the Middle East. However, even if we knew for a fact that the crime was committed by someone she knew, we couldn’t rule that out because she worked to bridge the gap between the Jewish and Muslim communities.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samantha_Woll?wprov=sfla1
Just saying.
Knowing more about the neighborhood (thank you, @TinyPizza) and having had more time to think about it, I’m still inclined to see this as a crime of passion. If it was a “kill any Jew” thing, they’d have targeted an area with more Jews. If it was “kill this particular person”, they could have tried to find an area with easier access and less Ring doorbells. If it was premeditated, a gun would be a more likely weapon.
Whether the precise “passion” involved was 'how dare you reject my advances ’ or ‘why do you talk about the suffering of the Gazans during my visit’, I can’t say. But my impression is that it was a spur-of-the-moment thing (poor choice of location and weapon), vs a targeted killing.
I think that is the most probable scenario.
I don’t think there is enough information to draw any conclusions about what the motive was or was not.