1 00:00:05,880 --> 00:00:13,880 Speaker 1: Crime Stories with Nancy Grace, twenty one years old. At 2 00:00:13,880 --> 00:00:17,239 Speaker 1: that age, I can still remember you feel like you 3 00:00:17,320 --> 00:00:21,080 Speaker 1: have your life in front of you, with dreams and 4 00:00:21,320 --> 00:00:27,400 Speaker 1: hopes and plans. It's hard for me to imagine what 5 00:00:27,480 --> 00:00:33,000 Speaker 1: this young girl, Nefia has been through to be in 6 00:00:33,040 --> 00:00:39,720 Speaker 1: college at an awesome New York university and you're heading 7 00:00:39,760 --> 00:00:45,040 Speaker 1: home and then out of the blue, a man appears 8 00:00:46,520 --> 00:00:52,199 Speaker 1: and throws a liquid into your face and you have 9 00:00:52,280 --> 00:00:59,080 Speaker 1: no idea who, why, or what. We now know it 10 00:00:59,240 --> 00:01:10,880 Speaker 1: was some sort of battery acid. Crime Stories with Nancy Grace. 11 00:01:16,760 --> 00:01:23,319 Speaker 1: I want justice. I want justice so deeply. I have 12 00:01:23,400 --> 00:01:29,640 Speaker 1: a little girl, she's thirteen. I have a little boy thirteen. 13 00:01:32,319 --> 00:01:37,800 Speaker 1: I cannot imagine the pain not only she but her 14 00:01:37,920 --> 00:01:44,600 Speaker 1: parents are going through and with us today, the mom 15 00:01:44,640 --> 00:01:50,640 Speaker 1: and this beautiful girl just twenty one. But we need you. 16 00:01:51,920 --> 00:01:55,560 Speaker 1: I'm Nancy Grace. This is Crime Stories. Thank you for 17 00:01:55,600 --> 00:01:58,640 Speaker 1: being with us here at Fox Nation and Serious X 18 00:01:59,040 --> 00:02:03,240 Speaker 1: one eleven. Listen, a college student is heading home, it 19 00:02:03,480 --> 00:02:07,400 Speaker 1: is eight thirty at night. Suddenly, out of nowhere, a 20 00:02:07,480 --> 00:02:11,600 Speaker 1: man comes up behind her. Then he does the unspeakable. 21 00:02:11,919 --> 00:02:15,280 Speaker 1: He throws a liquid substance into twenty one year old 22 00:02:15,560 --> 00:02:19,560 Speaker 1: Nafia Akrom's face. Nafia works part time as a pharmacy 23 00:02:19,600 --> 00:02:22,280 Speaker 1: tech and was coming home after a long shift. She 24 00:02:22,360 --> 00:02:24,600 Speaker 1: was getting out of the car and walking towards the 25 00:02:24,680 --> 00:02:27,680 Speaker 1: home on Long Island she lives with her parents. You 26 00:02:27,680 --> 00:02:30,120 Speaker 1: could see in the video the man comes sprinting from 27 00:02:30,280 --> 00:02:35,160 Speaker 1: this direction and throws acid right on her face. I 28 00:02:35,240 --> 00:02:37,800 Speaker 1: felt like it was kind of warm juice. It was 29 00:02:37,800 --> 00:02:40,000 Speaker 1: like a room temperature, and it didn't stick to my 30 00:02:40,040 --> 00:02:42,800 Speaker 1: face right away, didn't burn right away, So I just 31 00:02:42,840 --> 00:02:46,080 Speaker 1: thought I'd just been pranked. A couple of seconds later, 32 00:02:46,120 --> 00:02:49,919 Speaker 1: I'm walking down the driveway after he did that, and 33 00:02:51,480 --> 00:02:54,160 Speaker 1: my face starts burnie. At first, she thought she had 34 00:02:54,200 --> 00:02:57,760 Speaker 1: been pranked. Take a listen to more of what our 35 00:02:57,800 --> 00:03:01,079 Speaker 1: friends at Inside Edition learned. Do they know what kind 36 00:03:01,120 --> 00:03:06,000 Speaker 1: of acid? It's like the acid that they put in batteries. 37 00:03:06,280 --> 00:03:10,200 Speaker 1: I personally think that this was definitely premeditated and personal. 38 00:03:10,480 --> 00:03:13,120 Speaker 1: Do you think you were targeted? I think so. The 39 00:03:13,160 --> 00:03:17,760 Speaker 1: attack left TV personality Padma Lakshmi At shaken. Her driver 40 00:03:18,040 --> 00:03:22,400 Speaker 1: is no FIA's father. This Pakistani family is such a 41 00:03:22,520 --> 00:03:25,600 Speaker 1: nice family. I've known them for over a decade. They 42 00:03:25,639 --> 00:03:28,320 Speaker 1: don't even know if she'll be able to see properly 43 00:03:28,440 --> 00:03:32,280 Speaker 1: ever again, because she had contacts in and the acid 44 00:03:32,280 --> 00:03:36,200 Speaker 1: burned and melted the contacts into her eyes. With Me 45 00:03:36,280 --> 00:03:38,680 Speaker 1: and All Star Panel to make sense of what we 46 00:03:38,760 --> 00:03:43,000 Speaker 1: know so far, analyzing the clues left behind. Wendy Patrick, 47 00:03:43,080 --> 00:03:46,280 Speaker 1: California prosecutor, author of Red Flags. You can find her 48 00:03:46,320 --> 00:03:49,720 Speaker 1: at Wendy Patrick PhD dot com. She's also the host 49 00:03:49,720 --> 00:03:56,280 Speaker 1: of Today with Doctor Wendy KCBQ, San Diego. Doctor Jerry Krawsen, psychologist, 50 00:03:56,560 --> 00:04:01,040 Speaker 1: faculty Saint Leo University, Research consultant and author of Operation 51 00:04:01,400 --> 00:04:05,800 Speaker 1: s o S Practical Recommendations to help Stop Officers Suicide. 52 00:04:06,120 --> 00:04:11,080 Speaker 1: Karen L. Smith, forensic expert, Lecturer, University Florida and host 53 00:04:11,160 --> 00:04:17,320 Speaker 1: of Shattered Souls podcast. Spencer Coursen, Founder President Corson Security 54 00:04:17,360 --> 00:04:21,120 Speaker 1: Group at Courson Security Group dot com and author of 55 00:04:21,400 --> 00:04:26,080 Speaker 1: The Safety Sharp of Securities Experts Secrets for Staying Safe 56 00:04:26,279 --> 00:04:31,320 Speaker 1: in a Dangerous World. And Serena Fazan four time Emmy 57 00:04:31,440 --> 00:04:37,160 Speaker 1: Award winning anchor reporter Serena Fazzon Media. You can find 58 00:04:37,160 --> 00:04:41,760 Speaker 1: her at Serena Fazan dot Media and on her podcast 59 00:04:41,839 --> 00:04:46,440 Speaker 1: On the Record with Serena Fazan. But first joining us. 60 00:04:46,440 --> 00:04:54,000 Speaker 1: Sharena Muhammad, this is the victim's mother, and Nafia Crum. 61 00:04:54,120 --> 00:04:58,160 Speaker 1: Nafia and Sharena especially thank you for being with us. Nafia, 62 00:04:58,400 --> 00:05:02,000 Speaker 1: tell me what happened? Eight thirty in the evening. You're 63 00:05:02,080 --> 00:05:07,039 Speaker 1: leaving school, heading home where you live with your parents. 64 00:05:07,040 --> 00:05:12,160 Speaker 1: What happened? Back break in the car and my um 65 00:05:12,320 --> 00:05:15,240 Speaker 1: sash in the back seat? They winner on the car 66 00:05:15,800 --> 00:05:18,880 Speaker 1: and when I called you, they wearing I looked through 67 00:05:19,000 --> 00:05:22,719 Speaker 1: the right because the tuning room, and at this time 68 00:05:23,160 --> 00:05:26,839 Speaker 1: in my back I saw a male figure standing there 69 00:05:26,920 --> 00:05:30,280 Speaker 1: just looking at me, and I got a little creep out. Now, 70 00:05:30,279 --> 00:05:33,159 Speaker 1: hold on, hold on, Nafita right there? Are you telling 71 00:05:33,160 --> 00:05:35,960 Speaker 1: me you're in your car? I was leaving my car, 72 00:05:36,160 --> 00:05:39,320 Speaker 1: was like at the back seat, in the back seat 73 00:05:39,920 --> 00:05:43,360 Speaker 1: getting more stuff out. Okay, I'm having a hard time 74 00:05:43,440 --> 00:05:46,159 Speaker 1: hearing you. So you're you're leaving your car and you're 75 00:05:46,200 --> 00:05:48,600 Speaker 1: getting things out of the back seat. Is that what 76 00:05:48,640 --> 00:05:52,640 Speaker 1: you said? Yeah? Oh gosh, that's the time when you're 77 00:05:52,920 --> 00:05:56,120 Speaker 1: very defenseless, like people at malls getting stuff out of 78 00:05:56,120 --> 00:05:59,360 Speaker 1: their trunk or their back seat. You're not you don't 79 00:05:59,360 --> 00:06:02,560 Speaker 1: really know what going on to either side or behind you. 80 00:06:03,040 --> 00:06:05,400 Speaker 1: So you've been getting stuff in or out of your 81 00:06:05,440 --> 00:06:08,560 Speaker 1: back seat. And then what happened? If as I'm turning 82 00:06:08,560 --> 00:06:11,839 Speaker 1: around and leaving my car, I shut the door. I 83 00:06:11,960 --> 00:06:15,120 Speaker 1: turned to my right, and I see someone standing at 84 00:06:15,120 --> 00:06:18,720 Speaker 1: the end of my block just looking at me. I 85 00:06:18,839 --> 00:06:21,159 Speaker 1: got a little creeped out, so I started to walk 86 00:06:21,200 --> 00:06:24,280 Speaker 1: down my driveway very quickly, and that's when I heard 87 00:06:24,360 --> 00:06:27,680 Speaker 1: footsteps and running up behind me. So I turned around. 88 00:06:27,839 --> 00:06:32,760 Speaker 1: So you're already at home. You're at your parents' home, right, Okay, 89 00:06:32,880 --> 00:06:35,640 Speaker 1: all right? That helps me a lot to understand that 90 00:06:35,920 --> 00:06:38,960 Speaker 1: I knew you were leaving school and going toward your parents, 91 00:06:38,960 --> 00:06:41,800 Speaker 1: but you had made it there, got out of the car, 92 00:06:41,880 --> 00:06:44,200 Speaker 1: got stuff out of the back seat. You were getting 93 00:06:44,279 --> 00:06:46,599 Speaker 1: up and you see this guy at the end of 94 00:06:46,600 --> 00:06:50,320 Speaker 1: the block. What did he look like? And it couldn't 95 00:06:50,360 --> 00:06:52,880 Speaker 1: really see much because it was dark. It looked like 96 00:06:52,960 --> 00:06:57,479 Speaker 1: he had a dark creaming over his head, and his 97 00:06:57,800 --> 00:07:01,120 Speaker 1: arm looked like they were across in front of him. 98 00:07:01,240 --> 00:07:03,480 Speaker 1: That was all I saw from the distops that I 99 00:07:03,640 --> 00:07:05,800 Speaker 1: was at. Could you tell what color hair he had? 100 00:07:05,960 --> 00:07:09,080 Speaker 1: Was he why was he black? Anything? No? Nothing? I 101 00:07:09,160 --> 00:07:12,679 Speaker 1: couldn't see anything about his feet. Okay, Then what happened? 102 00:07:12,920 --> 00:07:16,679 Speaker 1: And I started to walk down my driveway very quickly 103 00:07:16,760 --> 00:07:20,320 Speaker 1: because I got to spoon because in our neighborhood, especially 104 00:07:20,400 --> 00:07:23,880 Speaker 1: like in March, it was cold. You don't see someone 105 00:07:24,080 --> 00:07:28,000 Speaker 1: walking around the block or anywhere like outside unless it's summer. 106 00:07:28,520 --> 00:07:30,880 Speaker 1: So that was just weird in itself. I started to 107 00:07:30,960 --> 00:07:34,560 Speaker 1: walk down the driveway very quickly, and I heard footsteps 108 00:07:34,640 --> 00:07:39,280 Speaker 1: running up behind me. So I turned around, and that's 109 00:07:39,320 --> 00:07:44,160 Speaker 1: when it happened. You say you turned around because you 110 00:07:44,200 --> 00:07:49,360 Speaker 1: heard footsteps, and that is when it happened. What happened. 111 00:07:51,000 --> 00:07:53,880 Speaker 1: I turned around and he was standing right in front 112 00:07:53,920 --> 00:07:56,920 Speaker 1: of meat, about like less than a foot away. He 113 00:07:57,000 --> 00:07:59,000 Speaker 1: had a cup in the can, and as soon as 114 00:07:59,040 --> 00:08:02,560 Speaker 1: I like tried to a closer look, he dashed something 115 00:08:02,600 --> 00:08:05,440 Speaker 1: in my face. I didn't know what it was at 116 00:08:05,440 --> 00:08:09,360 Speaker 1: the time. It kind of felt, like I said in 117 00:08:09,600 --> 00:08:13,119 Speaker 1: other interviews, like a warm news because that's the only 118 00:08:13,120 --> 00:08:16,360 Speaker 1: way to really describe it, like, you know, the substance 119 00:08:16,440 --> 00:08:19,960 Speaker 1: of the liquid. And then I started to walk down 120 00:08:20,040 --> 00:08:22,800 Speaker 1: my job really closer to my back door, and I 121 00:08:22,960 --> 00:08:25,760 Speaker 1: was just like, okay, like what was that? Because I 122 00:08:25,800 --> 00:08:28,120 Speaker 1: thought like maybe he was going to attack me or 123 00:08:28,240 --> 00:08:31,280 Speaker 1: kidnapped me or something, but like to just dash a 124 00:08:31,320 --> 00:08:34,040 Speaker 1: liquid in my face and run away. I was like, 125 00:08:34,200 --> 00:08:37,520 Speaker 1: that's weird, and then a couple of seconds later started 126 00:08:37,559 --> 00:08:41,000 Speaker 1: to burn. So that's when I started to tif question. 127 00:08:42,200 --> 00:08:44,920 Speaker 1: Do you remember what the cup looked like? Was it 128 00:08:45,080 --> 00:08:47,439 Speaker 1: an open container? Did it have some sort of a 129 00:08:47,520 --> 00:08:50,600 Speaker 1: lid on it? No, it was an open continuer and 130 00:08:50,640 --> 00:08:54,319 Speaker 1: it was like it was really big, white fully cup, 131 00:08:54,679 --> 00:08:59,160 Speaker 1: a really big Are you talking like a coffee cup? Yeah, 132 00:08:59,160 --> 00:09:01,720 Speaker 1: like one of those very big or a cup from 133 00:09:01,720 --> 00:09:06,040 Speaker 1: a fast you Yeah, exactly the ones you could get 134 00:09:06,040 --> 00:09:07,880 Speaker 1: where I'm going to say, the one you to get 135 00:09:07,880 --> 00:09:11,320 Speaker 1: at like seven eleven or like a debby at where 136 00:09:11,679 --> 00:09:15,640 Speaker 1: at like seven eleven, like a big gulp cup type thing, 137 00:09:16,360 --> 00:09:20,000 Speaker 1: didn't have a handle on it. No at terrible okay, 138 00:09:20,040 --> 00:09:22,280 Speaker 1: star foam. So when you're saying a cup, you mean 139 00:09:22,320 --> 00:09:25,040 Speaker 1: like a to go cup from McDonald's or something, not 140 00:09:25,200 --> 00:09:28,520 Speaker 1: a coffee cup with a handle. No, okay, I'm asking 141 00:09:28,559 --> 00:09:32,040 Speaker 1: for a reason. I'm asking for a reason. And M. 142 00:09:32,280 --> 00:09:36,839 Speaker 1: Spencer Corson, founder and president of Course and Security Group, 143 00:09:38,040 --> 00:09:41,200 Speaker 1: to me, that's critical information to you? Why that means 144 00:09:41,440 --> 00:09:47,640 Speaker 1: this person that through acid in a FIA's face and 145 00:09:47,880 --> 00:09:52,200 Speaker 1: my mind came from somewhere nearby, because how can you 146 00:09:52,320 --> 00:09:57,000 Speaker 1: travel with an open container a battery acid? You're exactly 147 00:09:57,000 --> 00:10:01,079 Speaker 1: correct answer this pre planned act and whether or not 148 00:10:01,559 --> 00:10:04,480 Speaker 1: that acid was already in the cup or if he 149 00:10:04,559 --> 00:10:07,040 Speaker 1: made it on the fly just prior to the attack. 150 00:10:07,600 --> 00:10:13,440 Speaker 1: This was a clearly identified and researched and you know 151 00:10:14,600 --> 00:10:19,240 Speaker 1: this the retribution of a grievance held by this by 152 00:10:19,280 --> 00:10:35,760 Speaker 1: this predator. But yet she didn't recognize him. Time stories 153 00:10:35,760 --> 00:10:41,280 Speaker 1: with Nancy Grace. Let me go back to Nafia Akrom 154 00:10:41,400 --> 00:10:45,160 Speaker 1: joining us along with her mother, Shrina Muhammad Nafia. When 155 00:10:45,200 --> 00:10:48,080 Speaker 1: he got up close to you, was there any recognition? 156 00:10:48,160 --> 00:10:51,480 Speaker 1: Do you think you know him or have seen him? 157 00:10:51,520 --> 00:10:55,440 Speaker 1: Any hint of recognition on your part? Well, because when 158 00:10:55,480 --> 00:10:58,320 Speaker 1: he got close to me, I tried to get a 159 00:10:58,360 --> 00:11:01,200 Speaker 1: little closure of a look, and I remember as soon 160 00:11:01,240 --> 00:11:04,360 Speaker 1: as I started to squint and I moved my head 161 00:11:04,360 --> 00:11:07,400 Speaker 1: a little closer to him to see his face, that's 162 00:11:07,400 --> 00:11:10,640 Speaker 1: when he threw the liquid in my face, and that's 163 00:11:10,640 --> 00:11:12,839 Speaker 1: how it ended up getting in my eye. What did 164 00:11:12,880 --> 00:11:17,840 Speaker 1: you do? Van? I turned around and continued walking down 165 00:11:17,880 --> 00:11:22,280 Speaker 1: the driveway. A little shock because that's not what I expected. 166 00:11:23,160 --> 00:11:27,000 Speaker 1: And then it started to burn, so I began to panic, 167 00:11:27,040 --> 00:11:29,520 Speaker 1: and then I ran to the back door where my 168 00:11:29,600 --> 00:11:32,839 Speaker 1: dad was standing in the kitchen, and I told him 169 00:11:32,840 --> 00:11:37,280 Speaker 1: what happened. I was crying, and then he realized. He 170 00:11:37,360 --> 00:11:41,079 Speaker 1: said that he saw like my face turned gray and 171 00:11:41,120 --> 00:11:43,760 Speaker 1: it looked like there was blood dripping down my shoulder, 172 00:11:43,880 --> 00:11:46,560 Speaker 1: which actually was just the color of the acid on 173 00:11:46,640 --> 00:11:49,880 Speaker 1: my coat, but it looked red. So he freaked out 174 00:11:50,440 --> 00:11:53,840 Speaker 1: and that's when he started screaming. For like, my mom 175 00:11:53,840 --> 00:11:56,880 Speaker 1: took call nine one one. She was in the bathroom. 176 00:11:57,240 --> 00:12:00,480 Speaker 1: She came dashing out and then they go start too. 177 00:12:00,960 --> 00:12:04,760 Speaker 1: Started to take off my coat and undress me so 178 00:12:04,800 --> 00:12:07,920 Speaker 1: that they could wash off my face and stuff while 179 00:12:07,960 --> 00:12:11,640 Speaker 1: the ambulance came. Did they wash off your face? Yeah? 180 00:12:12,679 --> 00:12:15,080 Speaker 1: They began to do that in the kitchen sink, and 181 00:12:15,120 --> 00:12:17,319 Speaker 1: then my dad was on the phone with the cops. 182 00:12:17,600 --> 00:12:20,280 Speaker 1: So her mom took me in the bathtub and started 183 00:12:20,320 --> 00:12:23,280 Speaker 1: to throw water in my face with the cups. He 184 00:12:23,400 --> 00:12:25,800 Speaker 1: told me to sit down and she was washing my face, 185 00:12:25,880 --> 00:12:29,040 Speaker 1: and as she was doing that, I remember telling her 186 00:12:29,320 --> 00:12:32,360 Speaker 1: that I couldn't breathe because my tongue started to get 187 00:12:32,360 --> 00:12:37,920 Speaker 1: swollen and I began to drool. I just thank god, 188 00:12:37,960 --> 00:12:45,480 Speaker 1: you're alive. I thank god, you're alive. Thank you. Yeah, Nafia, 189 00:12:45,559 --> 00:12:49,360 Speaker 1: have you gotten any of your eyesight back yet? It's 190 00:12:49,400 --> 00:12:53,960 Speaker 1: still singing on before I can see colors, but nothing 191 00:12:54,040 --> 00:12:58,760 Speaker 1: other than that. It's a very ter me and blurning still, 192 00:13:00,520 --> 00:13:03,000 Speaker 1: but that's only in the right eye. The left gy 193 00:13:03,080 --> 00:13:08,200 Speaker 1: is okay with me? Is and if his mother or Sharena, 194 00:13:09,840 --> 00:13:15,280 Speaker 1: Miss Muhammad, I'm so sorry for what your daughter and 195 00:13:15,320 --> 00:13:19,439 Speaker 1: your family are living through right now. If there's any 196 00:13:19,480 --> 00:13:24,320 Speaker 1: way we can help you, we will do it. The 197 00:13:24,400 --> 00:13:29,120 Speaker 1: tipline everyone five one six five seven three eighty eight 198 00:13:29,200 --> 00:13:33,439 Speaker 1: hundred repeat five one six five seventy three eighty eight hundred. 199 00:13:33,760 --> 00:13:37,000 Speaker 1: This is not just a headline. This is not the 200 00:13:37,080 --> 00:13:40,559 Speaker 1: plot of a movie or a TV crime show. This 201 00:13:40,679 --> 00:13:46,760 Speaker 1: is real with real people and real hurting that are 202 00:13:46,840 --> 00:13:51,760 Speaker 1: looking for answers. If you know anything or think you 203 00:13:52,040 --> 00:13:56,680 Speaker 1: know anything, please dial five one six five seven three 204 00:13:56,720 --> 00:13:59,319 Speaker 1: eighty eight hundred. There is also a go fund me 205 00:13:59,640 --> 00:14:06,320 Speaker 1: help Naphia acid attack survivor. Miss Muhammad. Please tell me 206 00:14:06,360 --> 00:14:10,600 Speaker 1: what you recall of that evening. Thank you for allowing 207 00:14:10,720 --> 00:14:12,720 Speaker 1: us and inviting us to her show. I means a 208 00:14:12,760 --> 00:14:18,480 Speaker 1: lot to us. So I came home after a twelve 209 00:14:18,480 --> 00:14:21,160 Speaker 1: hour shift. I picked my daughter up from where she 210 00:14:21,240 --> 00:14:24,880 Speaker 1: had completed a ten hour shift t trail of home, 211 00:14:25,640 --> 00:14:29,400 Speaker 1: and so I went in like just almost a minute 212 00:14:29,400 --> 00:14:32,600 Speaker 1: before her two years of washroom case. She came in 213 00:14:32,720 --> 00:14:36,120 Speaker 1: behind me, and as she explained what happened, I was 214 00:14:36,200 --> 00:14:40,280 Speaker 1: in the washroom and I heard my husband screaming call 215 00:14:40,400 --> 00:14:46,920 Speaker 1: nine one one, And as Snaphia explained what happened, it 216 00:14:47,080 --> 00:14:50,880 Speaker 1: was We still feel like we're living a dream. I 217 00:14:50,960 --> 00:14:55,640 Speaker 1: still feel numb. I still cannot believe where this is 218 00:14:55,680 --> 00:15:00,160 Speaker 1: our actual real life we're experiencing. It's not getting any 219 00:15:00,240 --> 00:15:05,160 Speaker 1: easier for us. My daughter is having a lot of complications. 220 00:15:06,120 --> 00:15:11,840 Speaker 1: She cannot even eat food, be still on liquids. We 221 00:15:11,960 --> 00:15:18,120 Speaker 1: had not anticipated all of this major complication and complexity 222 00:15:18,160 --> 00:15:23,080 Speaker 1: of the damage that the acid has caused. I don't know, 223 00:15:23,240 --> 00:15:26,680 Speaker 1: we don't know how long it's going to take. She 224 00:15:26,800 --> 00:15:31,040 Speaker 1: will never be the same again. And as you mentioned, 225 00:15:31,160 --> 00:15:34,520 Speaker 1: she's a young girl, twenty one years old. She's my 226 00:15:34,640 --> 00:15:42,200 Speaker 1: only child. And we're just playing and begging anybody's help 227 00:15:42,920 --> 00:15:47,640 Speaker 1: if they have any clue to please help us. That's 228 00:15:47,680 --> 00:15:52,520 Speaker 1: the main most important how we can get and also prayers, 229 00:15:53,760 --> 00:15:56,800 Speaker 1: and we're forever grateful for everyone to help us to 230 00:15:57,000 --> 00:16:00,800 Speaker 1: go fundly because we're I had no idea it was 231 00:16:00,840 --> 00:16:04,680 Speaker 1: going to be so costly and complex, and we have 232 00:16:04,800 --> 00:16:07,880 Speaker 1: no idea of not working. My daughter is not working. 233 00:16:08,520 --> 00:16:11,920 Speaker 1: She's everything to me and I don't care about working. 234 00:16:12,040 --> 00:16:14,880 Speaker 1: I want to be here for my daughter. She needs 235 00:16:14,920 --> 00:16:18,960 Speaker 1: me and she's all I huh. So I want to 236 00:16:19,000 --> 00:16:23,360 Speaker 1: thank everyone and please beg everyone to come out and 237 00:16:23,560 --> 00:16:27,200 Speaker 1: call that number if they have any clue that can 238 00:16:27,280 --> 00:16:30,000 Speaker 1: help us find this monster that it is to my daughter. 239 00:16:30,440 --> 00:16:33,360 Speaker 1: You're hearing the voice of Shoeini Muhammad. She is the 240 00:16:33,440 --> 00:16:40,440 Speaker 1: mother of Nafia Ikram. Please help her. The tip line 241 00:16:40,560 --> 00:16:43,880 Speaker 1: is five one six five seven three eighty eight hundred 242 00:16:44,040 --> 00:16:48,440 Speaker 1: repeat five one six five seven three eighty eight hundred. 243 00:16:48,880 --> 00:16:53,840 Speaker 1: You can go to crime online dot com and find 244 00:16:53,880 --> 00:16:56,960 Speaker 1: out all about the case, the tip line and they 245 00:16:57,000 --> 00:17:00,120 Speaker 1: go fund me, they go find me. Help enough the 246 00:17:00,920 --> 00:17:08,359 Speaker 1: acid attack survivor take a listen to our friends at 247 00:17:08,400 --> 00:17:11,320 Speaker 1: Inside Edition. Neighbors told police and now saw County, New 248 00:17:11,400 --> 00:17:14,960 Speaker 1: York they saw three men sitting in this red car 249 00:17:15,000 --> 00:17:20,400 Speaker 1: outside Nafia's house before the attack. She believes it was personal. 250 00:17:21,320 --> 00:17:23,720 Speaker 1: Do you know who did this? We do not know 251 00:17:23,760 --> 00:17:26,320 Speaker 1: who did this again, but we will. We will find 252 00:17:26,320 --> 00:17:30,040 Speaker 1: out who did this. Nafia faces a long road of recovery, 253 00:17:30,080 --> 00:17:33,600 Speaker 1: and she says she is actually grateful because it could 254 00:17:33,600 --> 00:17:37,360 Speaker 1: have been worse. I'll get through it with me today, 255 00:17:37,960 --> 00:17:42,879 Speaker 1: Nafia Ekram, She says, quote, I'll get through it, and 256 00:17:42,960 --> 00:17:51,440 Speaker 1: it's grateful because it could have been worse. To Serena Fazan, 257 00:17:51,600 --> 00:17:55,840 Speaker 1: four time Amy Award winning TV anchor and reporter host 258 00:17:55,920 --> 00:18:01,879 Speaker 1: of On the Record with Serena Fazan, you know, Serena, 259 00:18:01,960 --> 00:18:05,000 Speaker 1: I've seen a lot of crime victims in my lifetime. 260 00:18:07,040 --> 00:18:11,199 Speaker 1: And her words, her simple words, I'll get through it. 261 00:18:11,359 --> 00:18:17,560 Speaker 1: I know. I know. Nancy inspire me so much and 262 00:18:17,640 --> 00:18:22,160 Speaker 1: I want to help her so much. What do we know, Serena, 263 00:18:22,320 --> 00:18:25,359 Speaker 1: Just tell me anything. We can go on, Nancy, this 264 00:18:25,440 --> 00:18:28,119 Speaker 1: is something too that you and I both so relate to. 265 00:18:28,240 --> 00:18:31,280 Speaker 1: We both have daughters right around the same age. I 266 00:18:31,320 --> 00:18:33,680 Speaker 1: only have one daughter as well. Here's what we know, though, 267 00:18:33,680 --> 00:18:37,360 Speaker 1: and here's what I'm very very curious about. This horrible, 268 00:18:37,600 --> 00:18:43,160 Speaker 1: horrific attack happens on March seventeenth. Why are we hearing 269 00:18:43,280 --> 00:18:48,680 Speaker 1: more about it now? That's my question. Why didn't police 270 00:18:49,280 --> 00:18:54,080 Speaker 1: come out earlier to talk about this and also the 271 00:18:54,200 --> 00:18:58,440 Speaker 1: question I have to this does sound again very targeted. 272 00:18:59,440 --> 00:19:03,119 Speaker 1: Nafia said that she had not been in any type 273 00:19:03,119 --> 00:19:08,919 Speaker 1: of romantic relationship or had any type of partner and 274 00:19:09,000 --> 00:19:11,720 Speaker 1: those of no one who would have done this to her. 275 00:19:12,200 --> 00:19:14,719 Speaker 1: But my question is for something like this to happen, 276 00:19:15,280 --> 00:19:31,520 Speaker 1: there had to be people that police interviewed crime stories 277 00:19:31,520 --> 00:19:36,879 Speaker 1: with Nancy Grace. By all accounts, the perp was wearing 278 00:19:36,920 --> 00:19:39,720 Speaker 1: not only a hoodie, and you can see the video 279 00:19:39,720 --> 00:19:42,720 Speaker 1: of watched it over and over and over. You see 280 00:19:42,800 --> 00:19:46,760 Speaker 1: Afia Ecrumb outside her car, and you see in the 281 00:19:46,920 --> 00:19:53,240 Speaker 1: video a person running up directly to her, just as 282 00:19:53,240 --> 00:19:57,720 Speaker 1: she describes hearing the footsteps running up and thereby a 283 00:19:57,800 --> 00:20:01,840 Speaker 1: white picket fence, literally a white picket fence, which you 284 00:20:01,920 --> 00:20:04,560 Speaker 1: think is like the all American dream. A house, a 285 00:20:04,680 --> 00:20:07,399 Speaker 1: yard and a white picket fence runs up to it. 286 00:20:08,680 --> 00:20:12,879 Speaker 1: There's cars parked along the street. It's a neighborhood, a 287 00:20:12,880 --> 00:20:15,720 Speaker 1: residential area. She's not in some seedy part of town. 288 00:20:17,000 --> 00:20:20,600 Speaker 1: It's a lovely area. And then suddenly you see the 289 00:20:20,680 --> 00:20:24,600 Speaker 1: figure running up directly to her. She's walking away, her 290 00:20:24,640 --> 00:20:28,600 Speaker 1: back is to him, but he goes for her, and 291 00:20:28,760 --> 00:20:32,800 Speaker 1: when she turns. That's when he douses her with kind 292 00:20:32,840 --> 00:20:36,359 Speaker 1: of a white star foam to go cup. We think 293 00:20:36,520 --> 00:20:41,119 Speaker 1: is a description I'm getting in her face, covering her 294 00:20:41,359 --> 00:20:46,320 Speaker 1: with battery acid, burns and burning her eyes. She cannot 295 00:20:46,720 --> 00:20:53,080 Speaker 1: see properly, she can't eat, and it is a miracle 296 00:20:53,560 --> 00:20:57,720 Speaker 1: she is alive. To you, and if I understand, your 297 00:20:57,760 --> 00:21:00,760 Speaker 1: father rushed you to the hospital and they got there 298 00:21:00,840 --> 00:21:04,600 Speaker 1: within five minutes. They couldn't go with the Indian rooms 299 00:21:04,640 --> 00:21:10,840 Speaker 1: from the COVID, but they came afterwards to the er Well. 300 00:21:10,880 --> 00:21:13,480 Speaker 1: I was in the Charm Union. It may have saved 301 00:21:13,480 --> 00:21:16,679 Speaker 1: your life that your father drove the instead of waiting 302 00:21:16,800 --> 00:21:19,520 Speaker 1: for an ambulance. Guys, take a listen to our friend 303 00:21:19,560 --> 00:21:24,720 Speaker 1: James four Picks. Eleven surveillance video captured the March seventeenth attack. 304 00:21:25,040 --> 00:21:28,240 Speaker 1: Police say that a thin man six feet two inches 305 00:21:28,280 --> 00:21:31,399 Speaker 1: tall sneaked up and attacked Ikram with a cup of 306 00:21:31,400 --> 00:21:35,119 Speaker 1: what they call a hazardous substance. Ran behind me and 307 00:21:35,160 --> 00:21:37,439 Speaker 1: didn't say anything, waited from you to turn around and 308 00:21:37,520 --> 00:21:40,159 Speaker 1: just threw it in. She's spent the last month in 309 00:21:40,280 --> 00:21:43,520 Speaker 1: medical care. I think this through out to you. Karen Smith, 310 00:21:43,560 --> 00:21:47,119 Speaker 1: Forensics expert Lecturer, University of Florida. The guy's got on 311 00:21:47,160 --> 00:21:52,040 Speaker 1: a hoodie and gloves. And if he did he have 312 00:21:52,240 --> 00:21:54,600 Speaker 1: was there any emblem on the hoodie like a school 313 00:21:55,000 --> 00:21:58,520 Speaker 1: or a sports team. No, I couldn't see. It was 314 00:21:58,720 --> 00:22:01,720 Speaker 1: very dark. It looked like it was a dark hoodie 315 00:22:01,760 --> 00:22:05,200 Speaker 1: and clean. The only thing I noticed like he had 316 00:22:05,440 --> 00:22:08,960 Speaker 1: like a straight going down the right and left shoulder 317 00:22:09,280 --> 00:22:12,720 Speaker 1: of the body. That was good. Do you mean down 318 00:22:12,760 --> 00:22:15,720 Speaker 1: the arms are down the shoulders arms, Yeah, from the 319 00:22:15,800 --> 00:22:20,919 Speaker 1: shoulder down to the room. A stripe going down the arms. 320 00:22:21,400 --> 00:22:24,280 Speaker 1: I'm not saying it's Adidas, but you know how they 321 00:22:24,280 --> 00:22:27,359 Speaker 1: have a stripe going down the side of the pants. 322 00:22:28,560 --> 00:22:31,320 Speaker 1: And the cup again, the cup, do you think it 323 00:22:31,440 --> 00:22:34,720 Speaker 1: was a plain white styrofoam cup. Yeah, that's what it 324 00:22:34,800 --> 00:22:37,520 Speaker 1: looked like. Did he throw the cup down or did 325 00:22:37,560 --> 00:22:39,800 Speaker 1: he run with it? You run with it? He didn't 326 00:22:39,880 --> 00:22:43,359 Speaker 1: drop it. This is what we know. The guy is 327 00:22:43,400 --> 00:22:48,480 Speaker 1: about six feet two and he's wearing a hoodie with 328 00:22:49,320 --> 00:22:52,040 Speaker 1: stripes down the side. The hoodie's over his face and 329 00:22:52,080 --> 00:22:55,920 Speaker 1: he's wearing gloves. That tells me Karen Smith, as Spencer 330 00:22:56,119 --> 00:23:00,800 Speaker 1: Courson was saying earlier, does he ever around the or 331 00:23:00,800 --> 00:23:04,600 Speaker 1: how else? Because he carry an open container full of 332 00:23:04,680 --> 00:23:08,439 Speaker 1: battery acid unless he drove a car there right parked 333 00:23:08,480 --> 00:23:12,920 Speaker 1: around the corner, poured the battery acid while in the car, 334 00:23:12,960 --> 00:23:16,000 Speaker 1: and it snuck up on her. That's right. There's reports 335 00:23:16,000 --> 00:23:19,320 Speaker 1: of a red four door sedan that they're looking for, 336 00:23:19,480 --> 00:23:21,760 Speaker 1: and that's a part of the flyer for this case. 337 00:23:21,840 --> 00:23:24,680 Speaker 1: And you know, Nancy, the first place I would start 338 00:23:24,720 --> 00:23:27,960 Speaker 1: as rental car agencies. Dogs don't use their own cars. 339 00:23:28,840 --> 00:23:31,320 Speaker 1: I would start with rental car agencies. And a question 340 00:23:31,359 --> 00:23:34,679 Speaker 1: of the timeline that I have a styrofoam cup and 341 00:23:34,760 --> 00:23:37,560 Speaker 1: you're dealing with what she described as battery acid. That 342 00:23:37,560 --> 00:23:41,640 Speaker 1: would probably be something like sulfuric acid. Styrofoam cups well, 343 00:23:41,720 --> 00:23:44,359 Speaker 1: eat through acid will melt through them. So we're dealing 344 00:23:44,440 --> 00:23:47,640 Speaker 1: with a very tight timeline. Was the bottle in the car? 345 00:23:47,880 --> 00:23:49,840 Speaker 1: They poured it in the styrofoam cup and then ran 346 00:23:49,920 --> 00:23:52,840 Speaker 1: down the streets. This is a very tight timeline that 347 00:23:52,920 --> 00:23:55,960 Speaker 1: they're working with. So I'm hoping that you know, maybe 348 00:23:56,040 --> 00:23:59,760 Speaker 1: look at cool supply stores, auto supply dealers. Yeah, where 349 00:23:59,760 --> 00:24:02,000 Speaker 1: do you even get battery acid? Or why would you 350 00:24:02,040 --> 00:24:06,280 Speaker 1: get battery acid at a pool supply store? Yeah? Not 351 00:24:06,359 --> 00:24:11,880 Speaker 1: a pul supplant I'm sorry, auto supplies, yes, like an AutoZone. Right. 352 00:24:12,240 --> 00:24:13,840 Speaker 1: Was he a kem lab worker? Did he work in 353 00:24:13,880 --> 00:24:15,960 Speaker 1: an auto zone? Did he work in a garage somewhere 354 00:24:16,040 --> 00:24:18,480 Speaker 1: that has these things available? So it's going to be 355 00:24:18,520 --> 00:24:21,040 Speaker 1: a little bit of a boots on the ground gumshoe detective. 356 00:24:21,840 --> 00:24:23,600 Speaker 1: Some work needs to be done here with that. You 357 00:24:23,720 --> 00:24:27,520 Speaker 1: said red sedan, which typically means a red four door, right, 358 00:24:27,640 --> 00:24:30,080 Speaker 1: that's right. Normally what we're talking about when we not 359 00:24:30,240 --> 00:24:33,920 Speaker 1: an suv, not a minivan, not a geek, not a truck, 360 00:24:34,520 --> 00:24:38,840 Speaker 1: a regular sedan. Right. The picture they have online, it 361 00:24:39,080 --> 00:24:41,080 Speaker 1: looks like it maybe a Toyota or a Nissan, but 362 00:24:41,119 --> 00:24:43,960 Speaker 1: it's a four door, red sedan four door, that's right. 363 00:24:44,080 --> 00:24:47,719 Speaker 1: I thought Nissa one I saw it. But another issue 364 00:24:47,960 --> 00:24:51,520 Speaker 1: is where did they get the battery acid? That would 365 00:24:51,560 --> 00:24:56,879 Speaker 1: make me go to every AutoZone and auto repair shop 366 00:24:57,119 --> 00:25:00,880 Speaker 1: in that area to try to find out. Another thing 367 00:25:01,320 --> 00:25:06,840 Speaker 1: I'm curious about to Spencer Corson is ring doorbeil cams. 368 00:25:07,080 --> 00:25:10,240 Speaker 1: You know, police have access to about eighty percent of 369 00:25:10,400 --> 00:25:14,040 Speaker 1: those right now, and you could see what car he 370 00:25:14,200 --> 00:25:16,840 Speaker 1: got into. I wonder if the police have checked that 371 00:25:16,920 --> 00:25:19,240 Speaker 1: in the neighborhood, not only did that, Nancy, but in 372 00:25:19,320 --> 00:25:23,120 Speaker 1: addition to all those other places you can get battery asked, 373 00:25:23,119 --> 00:25:26,240 Speaker 1: you can get acid at Target Low's any home supply store. 374 00:25:26,600 --> 00:25:29,560 Speaker 1: But to your point about the importance of ring video cameras, 375 00:25:29,800 --> 00:25:33,359 Speaker 1: this was not the first time that perpetrator was at 376 00:25:33,480 --> 00:25:36,680 Speaker 1: this residence. At some point, some research and planning had 377 00:25:36,720 --> 00:25:38,480 Speaker 1: to have been done so that he knew where to 378 00:25:38,600 --> 00:25:40,719 Speaker 1: pre stage so that he could come up behind her. 379 00:25:41,359 --> 00:25:44,200 Speaker 1: So those video cameras, while it's great that they captured 380 00:25:44,240 --> 00:25:47,640 Speaker 1: the initial incident, the historic record of those cameras will 381 00:25:47,680 --> 00:25:51,080 Speaker 1: also provide t clues as to who this individual was. 382 00:25:51,200 --> 00:25:54,119 Speaker 1: I want to think about the ring doorbell aspect to 383 00:25:54,520 --> 00:25:59,440 Speaker 1: Sharina Mohammed. This is Nafia's mother, Miss Muhammed. Have the 384 00:25:59,520 --> 00:26:02,040 Speaker 1: police shared with you if they are trying to get 385 00:26:02,440 --> 00:26:07,359 Speaker 1: neighborhood surveillance. Yes, they did mention they burn around the 386 00:26:07,400 --> 00:26:11,880 Speaker 1: neighborhood and check the neighborhood cameras. They did say that, well, 387 00:26:11,880 --> 00:26:15,119 Speaker 1: I mean the guy had to run to somewhere. Did 388 00:26:15,280 --> 00:26:19,680 Speaker 1: nobody's camera pick up where he ran to, Miss Muhammad? 389 00:26:19,800 --> 00:26:23,600 Speaker 1: They didn't. They did not give us any information. They 390 00:26:23,720 --> 00:26:26,680 Speaker 1: just keep telling us they don't have any lydia. It 391 00:26:26,880 --> 00:26:30,359 Speaker 1: is very unclear if Nafea will regain her vision. Ever, 392 00:26:30,880 --> 00:26:34,520 Speaker 1: the ASCID caused her context to melt into her eyes, 393 00:26:35,480 --> 00:26:40,160 Speaker 1: is my understanding. We don't know the motivation. I'm looking 394 00:26:40,520 --> 00:26:44,679 Speaker 1: right at the vehicle and you can see it. It's 395 00:26:44,720 --> 00:26:48,240 Speaker 1: been released by Crime Stoppers and the Nassau County Police 396 00:26:48,280 --> 00:26:51,280 Speaker 1: Department and you can find it at crime online dot com. 397 00:26:51,400 --> 00:26:55,439 Speaker 1: The exact car. Another issue I'm wondering about Wendy Pastrick. 398 00:26:55,520 --> 00:26:58,520 Speaker 1: I mean, for Pete's sake, maybe they should consult Target 399 00:26:58,600 --> 00:27:01,600 Speaker 1: in Walmart because they seem to catch every detail of 400 00:27:01,680 --> 00:27:04,159 Speaker 1: what's going on in their store. Why can't we enhance 401 00:27:04,240 --> 00:27:06,800 Speaker 1: that tag plight. I think eventually we'll be able to 402 00:27:07,080 --> 00:27:10,159 Speaker 1: not only do all of the clues follow up that 403 00:27:10,240 --> 00:27:12,480 Speaker 1: we've discussed already, but I think they're also going to 404 00:27:12,600 --> 00:27:15,080 Speaker 1: maybe decide this is somebody that knew what time she 405 00:27:15,240 --> 00:27:18,000 Speaker 1: got home because the fact that when she was getting 406 00:27:18,000 --> 00:27:20,879 Speaker 1: out of her car and Nefia, you are in my prayers, 407 00:27:20,960 --> 00:27:23,800 Speaker 1: you and your loving family, But you describe getting out 408 00:27:23,840 --> 00:27:27,600 Speaker 1: of your car being surprisingly observant. After a ten hour shift, 409 00:27:27,680 --> 00:27:30,920 Speaker 1: you noticed something out of place, this guy waiting there, 410 00:27:31,000 --> 00:27:33,680 Speaker 1: which is what it sounds like so maybe it's more 411 00:27:33,760 --> 00:27:38,600 Speaker 1: we talk about disgruntled clients and disgruntled professional contacts that 412 00:27:38,720 --> 00:27:40,240 Speaker 1: we don't know about. I mean, half the people that 413 00:27:40,320 --> 00:27:43,080 Speaker 1: are stopped don't even know who their spin offers are, 414 00:27:43,160 --> 00:27:46,720 Speaker 1: only to find that there's some sort of a professional connection. Maybe, 415 00:27:46,800 --> 00:27:49,720 Speaker 1: in addition to enhancing the evidence, as Nancy points out 416 00:27:49,760 --> 00:27:52,080 Speaker 1: that I hope the police are doing, maybe they're also 417 00:27:52,200 --> 00:27:55,520 Speaker 1: going to figure out who professionally might know your hours, 418 00:27:55,640 --> 00:28:00,119 Speaker 1: your shift, or have some unspoken grievance that waited for you, 419 00:28:00,240 --> 00:28:02,479 Speaker 1: as you mentioned. So I'm looking forward to finding out 420 00:28:02,520 --> 00:28:04,359 Speaker 1: those clues as well. Take a listen to our friends 421 00:28:04,400 --> 00:28:08,080 Speaker 1: at ABC seven. Police have increased the reward for information 422 00:28:08,240 --> 00:28:10,959 Speaker 1: leading to the arrest and conviction of this individual from 423 00:28:11,040 --> 00:28:15,160 Speaker 1: five thousand dollars to twenty thousand dollars. They are still 424 00:28:15,359 --> 00:28:20,000 Speaker 1: trying to figure out a possible motive. We have no 425 00:28:20,200 --> 00:28:23,280 Speaker 1: evidence at this time to say it was a hate crime. 426 00:28:24,200 --> 00:28:26,200 Speaker 1: We have no evans at this time to say that 427 00:28:26,280 --> 00:28:29,959 Speaker 1: it was not a hate crime. We treat off victims 428 00:28:30,040 --> 00:28:32,800 Speaker 1: the same. Twenty one year old Hofster pre med student 429 00:28:32,840 --> 00:28:35,680 Speaker 1: in Nofia Ikram believes she was targeted in the March 430 00:28:35,800 --> 00:28:38,720 Speaker 1: seventeenth attack, but she doesn't know why. I was in 431 00:28:38,800 --> 00:28:41,320 Speaker 1: the ambulance and I felt my chest being ripped out 432 00:28:41,360 --> 00:28:43,160 Speaker 1: of my soul. That's how much pain I was in. 433 00:28:43,400 --> 00:28:46,200 Speaker 1: Investigators are testing the substance to figure out what exactly 434 00:28:46,280 --> 00:28:49,680 Speaker 1: it was. Ikram suffered first and second degree burns and 435 00:28:49,880 --> 00:28:52,880 Speaker 1: can't see out of her right eye. Both parents received 436 00:28:52,920 --> 00:28:54,720 Speaker 1: and try to help the daughter. She screamed for help. 437 00:28:54,920 --> 00:28:57,840 Speaker 1: They received burns at a hand. Also, when the acid 438 00:28:58,000 --> 00:29:03,240 Speaker 1: was thrown into Naphia's face, it caused her to scream 439 00:29:03,680 --> 00:29:07,200 Speaker 1: and then the acid got into her mouth. Her tongue 440 00:29:07,280 --> 00:29:11,200 Speaker 1: and throat were burned as a result. But hey, you're 441 00:29:11,200 --> 00:29:17,920 Speaker 1: interested in twenty grand anybody, because the reward for information 442 00:29:18,640 --> 00:29:25,840 Speaker 1: leading to the arrest and conviction of this monster, this ghoul, 443 00:29:26,080 --> 00:29:32,000 Speaker 1: this devil straight from hell is now up to twenty 444 00:29:32,400 --> 00:29:39,200 Speaker 1: thousand dollars twenty thousand dollars for information helping to solve 445 00:29:39,280 --> 00:29:45,640 Speaker 1: this brutal crime on a beautiful young girl going into medicine. 446 00:29:46,360 --> 00:29:50,360 Speaker 1: Tipline five one, six, five, seven, three eighty eight hundred 447 00:30:03,720 --> 00:30:11,760 Speaker 1: Crime stories with Nancy Grace to doctor Jory Crawsen, psychologist, 448 00:30:12,120 --> 00:30:18,960 Speaker 1: faculty Saint Leo University and author doctor Jory. He did 449 00:30:19,040 --> 00:30:21,800 Speaker 1: not want to kill her, He did not want to 450 00:30:22,840 --> 00:30:25,200 Speaker 1: sex assault her or rape her. He did not want 451 00:30:25,200 --> 00:30:31,640 Speaker 1: to steal from her. That's really narrowing down the motives, right, Yes, 452 00:30:31,720 --> 00:30:34,880 Speaker 1: it is, and especially the choice of weapons, which is 453 00:30:34,960 --> 00:30:38,880 Speaker 1: the acid that's meant to cause pain and inflict disfigurement 454 00:30:39,040 --> 00:30:43,520 Speaker 1: and disfigurement. Yes, And so you know that really does 455 00:30:43,720 --> 00:30:46,200 Speaker 1: narrow down for a profile. It could be somebody that 456 00:30:46,520 --> 00:30:51,240 Speaker 1: just felt slighted by her in some capacity, not to 457 00:30:51,360 --> 00:30:57,040 Speaker 1: necessary a relationship, but you know, some person that wanted 458 00:30:57,080 --> 00:31:00,200 Speaker 1: to injure her to this level of severity. You know, 459 00:31:00,320 --> 00:31:05,920 Speaker 1: he fled in a red twenty thirteen to fifteen Nissan Altima, 460 00:31:07,600 --> 00:31:12,720 Speaker 1: a red Nissan Ultima twenty thirteen to fifteen. And you 461 00:31:12,800 --> 00:31:16,400 Speaker 1: know how they know that. I learned this as a prosecutor. 462 00:31:16,520 --> 00:31:19,880 Speaker 1: When I first went to homicide, I walked through the 463 00:31:20,000 --> 00:31:24,760 Speaker 1: car theft division and they have stacks and stacks of 464 00:31:24,960 --> 00:31:30,440 Speaker 1: photo albums every year or other year. The tail lights, 465 00:31:30,840 --> 00:31:35,240 Speaker 1: the front lights, something on a car is redesigned, I think, 466 00:31:35,320 --> 00:31:39,440 Speaker 1: simply for the sake of change. And by that simple redesign, 467 00:31:39,680 --> 00:31:43,080 Speaker 1: say of a tail light, you can determine the make 468 00:31:43,200 --> 00:31:48,160 Speaker 1: model a year, A particular car was released twenty thirteen 469 00:31:48,200 --> 00:31:53,480 Speaker 1: to fifteen Nissan Ultima, according to police. Now, I want 470 00:31:53,520 --> 00:31:56,600 Speaker 1: to go back to the possibility that this is targeted, 471 00:31:56,760 --> 00:32:00,840 Speaker 1: which I think it is. Nafia is with us. She's 472 00:32:00,840 --> 00:32:06,600 Speaker 1: speaking very faintly, so listen very carefully, Nafia, and to 473 00:32:06,760 --> 00:32:09,200 Speaker 1: your mom Sharina, thank you for being with us. Nafia. 474 00:32:10,320 --> 00:32:15,080 Speaker 1: You're in school. Do you know of anyone that you 475 00:32:15,320 --> 00:32:19,280 Speaker 1: have rejected or somebody that has a crush on you 476 00:32:19,600 --> 00:32:22,520 Speaker 1: or someone you think it's harmless but you don't really 477 00:32:22,600 --> 00:32:28,120 Speaker 1: know them that are always hanging around. No, especially since 478 00:32:28,360 --> 00:32:32,640 Speaker 1: because of COVID the classes were annoying, so I wasn't 479 00:32:32,680 --> 00:32:35,680 Speaker 1: really going into classes or anything like that to be 480 00:32:35,800 --> 00:32:40,560 Speaker 1: around people from your school. How about work? No, I 481 00:32:40,720 --> 00:32:44,320 Speaker 1: mean possibly because I speak to so many people and 482 00:32:44,440 --> 00:32:48,680 Speaker 1: to be basis, but I've never had any altercation with anyone, 483 00:32:49,840 --> 00:32:52,640 Speaker 1: so I don't think it would be an altercation necessarily. 484 00:32:54,040 --> 00:32:59,880 Speaker 1: I mean, Sharena, your daughter is beautiful. There are wackos 485 00:33:00,080 --> 00:33:06,120 Speaker 1: out there. They get crushes with absolutely no suggestion from 486 00:33:06,160 --> 00:33:10,560 Speaker 1: the woman that they're interested, or sometimes the woman doesn't 487 00:33:10,560 --> 00:33:14,320 Speaker 1: even know someone has a crush, but they do. Right, 488 00:33:14,960 --> 00:33:18,240 Speaker 1: And I'm just thinking Straina, Where does your daughter work? 489 00:33:19,040 --> 00:33:24,200 Speaker 1: She works on CBS to tech. She works involved in 490 00:33:24,400 --> 00:33:30,040 Speaker 1: so she sees people every day that she doesn't really know. 491 00:33:30,720 --> 00:33:34,920 Speaker 1: Take a listen to our friends Sefan Kim, ABC seven. 492 00:33:35,200 --> 00:33:37,760 Speaker 1: My advice is, could surrender yourself now because we're coming 493 00:33:37,840 --> 00:33:40,480 Speaker 1: for you. The Nassau County Police Commissioner were the message 494 00:33:40,480 --> 00:33:43,720 Speaker 1: for the man seeing in this video committing an unthinkable 495 00:33:43,840 --> 00:33:47,640 Speaker 1: hanous act throwing some kind of hazardous corrosive liquid in 496 00:33:47,760 --> 00:33:50,880 Speaker 1: the fia it Crumb's face. Police now in a man 497 00:33:51,000 --> 00:33:54,360 Speaker 1: hunt and releasing new leads. The vehicle that we have 498 00:33:54,560 --> 00:33:59,800 Speaker 1: on video at multiple locations is a two twenty thirteenth 499 00:34:00,040 --> 00:34:06,000 Speaker 1: twenty fifteen red Nissan Altima with yellow New York plates. 500 00:34:06,240 --> 00:34:09,080 Speaker 1: The twenty one year old pre met student at Hofstra University, 501 00:34:09,160 --> 00:34:11,640 Speaker 1: telling I went this news last night. She noticed the 502 00:34:11,719 --> 00:34:14,360 Speaker 1: suspect as soon as she got home that night. I 503 00:34:14,520 --> 00:34:17,600 Speaker 1: see someone standing at the end of the walk by 504 00:34:17,640 --> 00:34:20,839 Speaker 1: the stop sign, just looking at me, and I thought 505 00:34:20,880 --> 00:34:24,640 Speaker 1: that was really weird because, especially in our neighborhood, it's 506 00:34:24,680 --> 00:34:28,040 Speaker 1: a very quiet, and being that it was like March, 507 00:34:28,360 --> 00:34:31,560 Speaker 1: it's cold, especially at night, you don't see people walking around. 508 00:34:31,840 --> 00:34:34,200 Speaker 1: Why did they know what time I'd be home. It 509 00:34:34,360 --> 00:34:37,000 Speaker 1: was like they were waiting for me. That's more information. 510 00:34:37,600 --> 00:34:41,520 Speaker 1: New York Plates, New York Plights on a red Nissan 511 00:34:41,680 --> 00:34:45,560 Speaker 1: Altima twenty thirteen to twenty fifteen, Karen Smith, That's a 512 00:34:45,640 --> 00:34:49,600 Speaker 1: lot of information. That's fantastic information. And I'm going to 513 00:34:49,680 --> 00:34:52,239 Speaker 1: walk back my theory about the rental car because of 514 00:34:52,360 --> 00:34:55,040 Speaker 1: twenty thirteen to twenty fifteen, no rental car agency is 515 00:34:55,040 --> 00:34:57,760 Speaker 1: going to have a car that old. You know, it's 516 00:34:57,800 --> 00:35:00,760 Speaker 1: going to belong to somebody. Somebody has that car registered 517 00:35:00,800 --> 00:35:03,040 Speaker 1: in their name. I'm really hoping that they can enhance 518 00:35:03,120 --> 00:35:09,320 Speaker 1: that license flight somehow too. Nafi, how has this changed 519 00:35:09,400 --> 00:35:13,200 Speaker 1: your life? Honestly, it's changed my life in every possible way. 520 00:35:14,160 --> 00:35:18,000 Speaker 1: As a big bolt. The main thing in the beginning 521 00:35:18,239 --> 00:35:20,640 Speaker 1: was that I couldn't see out of my right eye, 522 00:35:21,280 --> 00:35:24,480 Speaker 1: and I thought that that was bad. But now like 523 00:35:24,600 --> 00:35:28,440 Speaker 1: the fact that I can't really like I live on 524 00:35:28,640 --> 00:35:35,360 Speaker 1: protein shakes. I struggle to even like have raman noodles, 525 00:35:35,440 --> 00:35:39,319 Speaker 1: like I can't even meet that. Oh, just basic things 526 00:35:39,360 --> 00:35:42,960 Speaker 1: like I love seeing, like choose it and like sooner sandwiches. 527 00:35:43,600 --> 00:35:47,640 Speaker 1: I can't have anything that's even as sauces r They 528 00:35:47,680 --> 00:35:51,440 Speaker 1: just look what on my throat. So that's the major thing. 529 00:35:51,719 --> 00:35:55,080 Speaker 1: And then I don't work anymore, I don't go to school. 530 00:35:55,280 --> 00:35:58,160 Speaker 1: I used to exercise a lot, I used to have 531 00:35:58,320 --> 00:36:01,440 Speaker 1: a life outside of you know, work. I used to 532 00:36:01,480 --> 00:36:04,640 Speaker 1: have a social life, not partying and stuff like that. 533 00:36:04,880 --> 00:36:07,759 Speaker 1: But I just mean, like something simple is going out 534 00:36:07,800 --> 00:36:11,040 Speaker 1: to get ice creams. I'm so traumatized now I wouldn't go. 535 00:36:11,920 --> 00:36:14,880 Speaker 1: Or like walking around the block because I saw that 536 00:36:15,040 --> 00:36:17,120 Speaker 1: man standing at the end of my walk is just 537 00:36:17,280 --> 00:36:21,480 Speaker 1: traumatizing to me, like being in my own backyard alone, 538 00:36:21,800 --> 00:36:28,480 Speaker 1: traumatizing because this is what happened. Different forts Sharina Muhammad. 539 00:36:28,600 --> 00:36:33,640 Speaker 1: This is Nephia's mother. What are the doctors saying, Well, 540 00:36:34,239 --> 00:36:39,319 Speaker 1: it's going to be a long road. They're treating her. 541 00:36:40,040 --> 00:36:43,719 Speaker 1: She had eyelid surgery or less any day, because so 542 00:36:44,480 --> 00:36:48,520 Speaker 1: the healing process is causing a lot of scoring and 543 00:36:49,840 --> 00:36:52,920 Speaker 1: things are getting shifted in her face, her eyes, the 544 00:36:53,000 --> 00:36:56,600 Speaker 1: same problem with her throat. So she's going to have 545 00:36:57,920 --> 00:37:05,160 Speaker 1: multiple surgery stepped by step. See how it's feeling and progressing. Unfortunately, 546 00:37:05,280 --> 00:37:10,080 Speaker 1: we did not anticipate such degree of damage, and we're 547 00:37:10,200 --> 00:37:14,680 Speaker 1: really shocked. And my daughter is getting more devastated every 548 00:37:14,760 --> 00:37:20,280 Speaker 1: day as more things are getting complicated, they cannot predict 549 00:37:20,400 --> 00:37:25,320 Speaker 1: and give us they definite answer as so what will happen. 550 00:37:25,520 --> 00:37:29,880 Speaker 1: They just have to explain one day at the time, 551 00:37:30,160 --> 00:37:32,360 Speaker 1: one procedure at a time. They're going to try to, 552 00:37:33,080 --> 00:37:35,960 Speaker 1: you know, do the eye surgery and then check her 553 00:37:36,080 --> 00:37:40,440 Speaker 1: carnia see any vision comes back. So at this point 554 00:37:40,520 --> 00:37:44,239 Speaker 1: in time, we do not have any definite diagnosis of 555 00:37:44,400 --> 00:37:48,120 Speaker 1: what's going to happen to her, which is very devastating 556 00:37:48,160 --> 00:37:52,040 Speaker 1: to us. For those of you listening now, if you 557 00:37:52,200 --> 00:37:56,440 Speaker 1: have information or think you have information, we beg you 558 00:37:56,600 --> 00:37:59,960 Speaker 1: to call five one six five seven three eight hundred 559 00:38:00,840 --> 00:38:05,000 Speaker 1: five one six five seventy three eight eight hundred or 560 00:38:05,160 --> 00:38:08,560 Speaker 1: go to the go fund me. They desperately need our help. 561 00:38:09,600 --> 00:38:14,239 Speaker 1: Help Nafia in a f as in Frank I a 562 00:38:14,760 --> 00:38:22,560 Speaker 1: h help Nafia acid attack survivor get justice it gofund 563 00:38:22,680 --> 00:38:31,160 Speaker 1: me Nafia. What do you miss the most right now? 564 00:38:32,320 --> 00:38:38,719 Speaker 1: Eating what I want to eat? But because honestly, like young, 565 00:38:38,840 --> 00:38:42,279 Speaker 1: my face is a little different right now, the skin 566 00:38:42,480 --> 00:38:46,000 Speaker 1: heal the fact that like I have to watch my 567 00:38:46,160 --> 00:38:50,640 Speaker 1: parents eat certainting, like yesterday they had pizza and I 568 00:38:50,840 --> 00:38:54,040 Speaker 1: was just saying, like I miss eating that, you know 569 00:38:54,280 --> 00:38:57,879 Speaker 1: could honestly because of the fact that I'm pre med. 570 00:38:58,040 --> 00:39:01,080 Speaker 1: I'm going to share a like the whole fact, which is, 571 00:39:02,680 --> 00:39:06,200 Speaker 1: let's say, like you're depressed or you're feeling down. You 572 00:39:06,320 --> 00:39:08,520 Speaker 1: know how people say, like if you eat ice cream 573 00:39:08,680 --> 00:39:12,920 Speaker 1: or chocolate, you'll cheer up. That's because eating something you 574 00:39:13,120 --> 00:39:19,720 Speaker 1: enjoy releases dope mean in your brain, which is critical 575 00:39:19,840 --> 00:39:23,520 Speaker 1: to your mood. So like, for example, if I'm craving 576 00:39:23,600 --> 00:39:26,640 Speaker 1: Chipotle and I go get Chipotle and I eat it, 577 00:39:27,280 --> 00:39:30,520 Speaker 1: the dopeine levels in my brain are gonna go higher, 578 00:39:30,800 --> 00:39:34,799 Speaker 1: which will increase my levels of happiness. So let's say 579 00:39:34,920 --> 00:39:37,040 Speaker 1: like I look in the mirror and I remember that 580 00:39:37,360 --> 00:39:40,799 Speaker 1: my vision is horrible and my face is messed up. 581 00:39:41,000 --> 00:39:43,360 Speaker 1: At least I can eat my Chipotle and a little 582 00:39:43,360 --> 00:39:46,759 Speaker 1: bit of my happiness will be there. But the fact 583 00:39:46,840 --> 00:39:50,000 Speaker 1: that I crave certain things where I see my parents 584 00:39:50,120 --> 00:39:52,759 Speaker 1: eat certain things that I can't have. Like two nights ago, 585 00:39:52,840 --> 00:39:55,440 Speaker 1: I had a dream that I was eating something that 586 00:39:55,560 --> 00:39:57,600 Speaker 1: I loved to eat, and then I woke up and 587 00:39:57,680 --> 00:40:02,640 Speaker 1: I remembered I'm having such high time swallowing that this 588 00:40:02,880 --> 00:40:07,040 Speaker 1: is my reality. And then I read that even before 589 00:40:07,080 --> 00:40:12,120 Speaker 1: this happened. I'm sorry. Before the swallowing issue happened, I 590 00:40:12,280 --> 00:40:15,359 Speaker 1: was in the hospital because of the fact that they 591 00:40:15,400 --> 00:40:18,200 Speaker 1: had me on sterres and stuff. The information has been 592 00:40:18,320 --> 00:40:21,120 Speaker 1: as bad, it got a little better, so when I 593 00:40:21,200 --> 00:40:23,480 Speaker 1: came home, I was eating a lot better and then 594 00:40:23,520 --> 00:40:27,000 Speaker 1: in a downhill. But even before the swallowing issue happened, 595 00:40:27,080 --> 00:40:29,680 Speaker 1: the vision, like I've said, was the vat issue for me. 596 00:40:30,280 --> 00:40:32,799 Speaker 1: But now this it just makes me a lot more 597 00:40:32,880 --> 00:40:35,920 Speaker 1: because because like I said, food contributes to our happiness, 598 00:40:35,960 --> 00:40:40,480 Speaker 1: bubbles and our breath, so that's definitely something. Nafia, you 599 00:40:40,680 --> 00:40:43,880 Speaker 1: said that your face is different. What do you mean? 600 00:40:44,200 --> 00:40:48,120 Speaker 1: I don't look the same at all the way I 601 00:40:48,280 --> 00:40:51,960 Speaker 1: used to look before. My face now is just complete 602 00:40:52,080 --> 00:40:55,279 Speaker 1: and it's gonna take a long time to heal. I 603 00:40:55,480 --> 00:40:59,279 Speaker 1: know all heal, but like the skin color is very red, 604 00:41:00,239 --> 00:41:05,960 Speaker 1: it's very swollen. Oh, I'll just listen to from who who? 605 00:41:06,560 --> 00:41:13,040 Speaker 1: Who would do this? We wait as just as some faults, 606 00:41:14,120 --> 00:41:22,719 Speaker 1: and in the meantime we continue to pray. Goodbye friend,