May 25, 2021 • 41 mins
A 21-year-old pre-med college student was doused with acid, leaving her blind and disfigured. Nafiah Ikram, 21, was attacked outside of her Long Island, New York, home in March, in an incident that her family members believed had been planned. Security footage caught the act as Ikram stepped out of a car with her mother, just before the attack. While physicians aren’t sure if Ikram will ever fully see again, investigators are trying to determine who would do this to the victim. Ikram said she was likely targeted but has no idea why. Police said the suspect in the New York incident wore a black hooded sweatshirt during the incident and was holding a white cup. He stands around 6-feet-2-inches tall and has a “skinny build.”
Joining Nancy Grace today;
- Nafiah Ikram - Victim, GoFundMe: "Help Nafiah, acid attack survivor, get justice" gofund.me/95699ed6
- Sherina Mohammed- Victim's Mother
- Wendy Patrick - California prosecutor, Author: “Red Flags” www.wendypatrickphd.com 'Today with Dr. Wendy' on KCBQ in San Diego
- Dr. Jorey Krawczyn [KRAW-ZIN] - Police Psychologist, Adjunct Faculty with Saint Leo University; Research Consultant with Blue Wall Institute, Author: Operation S.O.S. - Practical Recommendations to Help “Stop Officer Suicide” (July 2021) bw-institute.com
- Karen L. Smith - Forensic Expert, Lecturer at the University of Florida, Host of Shattered Souls Podcast, @KarensForensic, barebonesforensic.com
- Sarina Fazan - Four-time Emmy award-winning TV Anchor & Reporter, Sarina Fazan Media, sarinafazan.media, Podcast: "On The Record with Sarina Fazan" @sarinafazannews, YouTube: Sarina Fazan TV
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Speaker 1 (00:05):
Crime Stories with Nancy Grace, twenty one years old. At
that age, I can still remember you feel like you
have your life in front of you, with dreams and
hopes and plans. It's hard for me to imagine what
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this young girl, Nefia has been through to be in
college at an awesome New York university and you're heading
home and then out of the blue, a man appears
and throws a liquid into your face and you have
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no idea who, why, or what. We now know it
was some sort of battery acid. Crime Stories with Nancy Grace.
(01:16):
I want justice. I want justice so deeply. I have
a little girl, she's thirteen. I have a little boy thirteen.
I cannot imagine the pain not only she but her
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parents are going through and with us today, the mom
and this beautiful girl just twenty one. But we need you.
I'm Nancy Grace. This is Crime Stories. Thank you for
being with us here at Fox Nation and Serious X
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one eleven. Listen, a college student is heading home, it
is eight thirty at night. Suddenly, out of nowhere, a
man comes up behind her. Then he does the unspeakable.
He throws a liquid substance into twenty one year old
Nafia Akrom's face. Nafia works part time as a pharmacy
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tech and was coming home after a long shift. She
was getting out of the car and walking towards the
home on Long Island she lives with her parents. You
could see in the video the man comes sprinting from
this direction and throws acid right on her face. I
felt like it was kind of warm juice. It was
like a room temperature, and it didn't stick to my
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face right away, didn't burn right away, So I just
thought I'd just been pranked. A couple of seconds later,
I'm walking down the driveway after he did that, and
my face starts burnie. At first, she thought she had
been pranked. Take a listen to more of what our
friends at Inside Edition learned. Do they know what kind
(03:01):
of acid? It's like the acid that they put in batteries.
I personally think that this was definitely premeditated and personal.
Do you think you were targeted? I think so. The
attack left TV personality Padma Lakshmi At shaken. Her driver
is no FIA's father. This Pakistani family is such a
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nice family. I've known them for over a decade. They
don't even know if she'll be able to see properly
ever again, because she had contacts in and the acid
burned and melted the contacts into her eyes. With Me
and All Star Panel to make sense of what we
know so far, analyzing the clues left behind. Wendy Patrick,
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California prosecutor, author of Red Flags. You can find her
at Wendy Patrick PhD dot com. She's also the host
of Today with Doctor Wendy KCBQ, San Diego. Doctor Jerry Krawsen, psychologist,
faculty Saint Leo University, Research consultant and author of Operation
s o S Practical Recommendations to help Stop Officers Suicide.
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Karen L. Smith, forensic expert, Lecturer, University Florida and host
of Shattered Souls podcast. Spencer Coursen, Founder President Corson Security
Group at Courson Security Group dot com and author of
The Safety Sharp of Securities Experts Secrets for Staying Safe
(04:26):
in a Dangerous World. And Serena Fazan four time Emmy
Award winning anchor reporter Serena Fazzon Media. You can find
her at Serena Fazan dot Media and on her podcast
On the Record with Serena Fazan. But first joining us.
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Sharena Muhammad, this is the victim's mother, and Nafia Crum.
Nafia and Sharena especially thank you for being with us. Nafia,
tell me what happened? Eight thirty in the evening. You're
leaving school, heading home where you live with your parents.
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What happened? Back break in the car and my um
sash in the back seat? They winner on the car
and when I called you, they wearing I looked through
the right because the tuning room, and at this time
in my back I saw a male figure standing there
just looking at me, and I got a little creep out. Now,
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hold on, hold on, Nafita right there? Are you telling
me you're in your car? I was leaving my car,
was like at the back seat, in the back seat
getting more stuff out. Okay, I'm having a hard time
hearing you. So you're you're leaving your car and you're
getting things out of the back seat. Is that what
you said? Yeah? Oh gosh, that's the time when you're
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very defenseless, like people at malls getting stuff out of
their trunk or their back seat. You're not you don't
really know what going on to either side or behind you.
So you've been getting stuff in or out of your
back seat. And then what happened? If as I'm turning
around and leaving my car, I shut the door. I
turned to my right, and I see someone standing at
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the end of my block just looking at me. I
got a little creeped out, so I started to walk
down my driveway very quickly, and that's when I heard
footsteps and running up behind me. So I turned around.
So you're already at home. You're at your parents' home, right, Okay,
all right? That helps me a lot to understand that
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I knew you were leaving school and going toward your parents,
but you had made it there, got out of the car,
got stuff out of the back seat. You were getting
up and you see this guy at the end of
the block. What did he look like? And it couldn't
really see much because it was dark. It looked like
he had a dark creaming over his head, and his
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arm looked like they were across in front of him.
That was all I saw from the distops that I
was at. Could you tell what color hair he had?
Was he why was he black? Anything? No? Nothing? I
couldn't see anything about his feet. Okay, Then what happened?
And I started to walk down my driveway very quickly
because I got to spoon because in our neighborhood, especially
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like in March, it was cold. You don't see someone
walking around the block or anywhere like outside unless it's summer.
So that was just weird in itself. I started to
walk down the driveway very quickly, and I heard footsteps
running up behind me. So I turned around, and that's
when it happened. You say you turned around because you
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heard footsteps, and that is when it happened. What happened.
I turned around and he was standing right in front
of meat, about like less than a foot away. He
had a cup in the can, and as soon as
I like tried to a closer look, he dashed something
in my face. I didn't know what it was at
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the time. It kind of felt, like I said in
other interviews, like a warm news because that's the only
way to really describe it, like, you know, the substance
of the liquid. And then I started to walk down
my job really closer to my back door, and I
was just like, okay, like what was that? Because I
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thought like maybe he was going to attack me or
kidnapped me or something, but like to just dash a
liquid in my face and run away. I was like,
that's weird, and then a couple of seconds later started
to burn. So that's when I started to tif question.
Do you remember what the cup looked like? Was it
an open container? Did it have some sort of a
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lid on it? No, it was an open continuer and
it was like it was really big, white fully cup,
a really big Are you talking like a coffee cup? Yeah,
like one of those very big or a cup from
a fast you Yeah, exactly the ones you could get
where I'm going to say, the one you to get
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at like seven eleven or like a debby at where
at like seven eleven, like a big gulp cup type thing,
didn't have a handle on it. No at terrible okay,
star foam. So when you're saying a cup, you mean
like a to go cup from McDonald's or something, not
a coffee cup with a handle. No, okay, I'm asking
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for a reason. I'm asking for a reason. And M.
Spencer Corson, founder and president of Course and Security Group,
to me, that's critical information to you? Why that means
this person that through acid in a FIA's face and
my mind came from somewhere nearby, because how can you
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travel with an open container a battery acid? You're exactly
correct answer this pre planned act and whether or not
that acid was already in the cup or if he
made it on the fly just prior to the attack.
This was a clearly identified and researched and you know
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this the retribution of a grievance held by this by
this predator. But yet she didn't recognize him. Time stories
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with Nancy Grace. Let me go back to Nafia Akrom
joining us along with her mother, Shrina Muhammad Nafia. When
he got up close to you, was there any recognition?
Do you think you know him or have seen him?
Any hint of recognition on your part? Well, because when
he got close to me, I tried to get a
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little closure of a look, and I remember as soon
as I started to squint and I moved my head
a little closer to him to see his face, that's
when he threw the liquid in my face, and that's
how it ended up getting in my eye. What did
you do? Van? I turned around and continued walking down
the driveway. A little shock because that's not what I expected.
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And then it started to burn, so I began to panic,
and then I ran to the back door where my
dad was standing in the kitchen, and I told him
what happened. I was crying, and then he realized. He
said that he saw like my face turned gray and
it looked like there was blood dripping down my shoulder,
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which actually was just the color of the acid on
my coat, but it looked red. So he freaked out
and that's when he started screaming. For like, my mom
took call nine one one. She was in the bathroom.
She came dashing out and then they go start too.
Started to take off my coat and undress me so
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that they could wash off my face and stuff while
the ambulance came. Did they wash off your face? Yeah?
They began to do that in the kitchen sink, and
then my dad was on the phone with the cops.
So her mom took me in the bathtub and started
to throw water in my face with the cups. He
told me to sit down and she was washing my face,
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and as she was doing that, I remember telling her
that I couldn't breathe because my tongue started to get
swollen and I began to drool. I just thank god,
you're alive. I thank god, you're alive. Thank you. Yeah, Nafia,
have you gotten any of your eyesight back yet? It's
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still singing on before I can see colors, but nothing
other than that. It's a very ter me and blurning still,
but that's only in the right eye. The left gy
is okay with me? Is and if his mother or Sharena,
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Miss Muhammad, I'm so sorry for what your daughter and
your family are living through right now. If there's any
way we can help you, we will do it. The
tipline everyone five one six five seven three eighty eight
hundred repeat five one six five seventy three eighty eight hundred.
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This is not just a headline. This is not the
plot of a movie or a TV crime show. This
is real with real people and real hurting that are
looking for answers. If you know anything or think you
know anything, please dial five one six five seven three
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eighty eight hundred. There is also a go fund me
help Naphia acid attack survivor. Miss Muhammad. Please tell me
what you recall of that evening. Thank you for allowing
us and inviting us to her show. I means a
lot to us. So I came home after a twelve
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hour shift. I picked my daughter up from where she
had completed a ten hour shift t trail of home,
and so I went in like just almost a minute
before her two years of washroom case. She came in
behind me, and as she explained what happened, I was
in the washroom and I heard my husband screaming call
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nine one one, And as Snaphia explained what happened, it
was We still feel like we're living a dream. I
still feel numb. I still cannot believe where this is
our actual real life we're experiencing. It's not getting any
easier for us. My daughter is having a lot of complications.
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She cannot even eat food, be still on liquids. We
had not anticipated all of this major complication and complexity
of the damage that the acid has caused. I don't know,
we don't know how long it's going to take. She
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will never be the same again. And as you mentioned,
she's a young girl, twenty one years old. She's my
only child. And we're just playing and begging anybody's help
if they have any clue to please help us. That's
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the main most important how we can get and also prayers,
and we're forever grateful for everyone to help us to
go fundly because we're I had no idea it was
going to be so costly and complex, and we have
no idea of not working. My daughter is not working.
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She's everything to me and I don't care about working.
I want to be here for my daughter. She needs
me and she's all I huh. So I want to
thank everyone and please beg everyone to come out and
call that number if they have any clue that can
help us find this monster that it is to my daughter.
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You're hearing the voice of Shoeini Muhammad. She is the
mother of Nafia Ikram. Please help her. The tip line
is five one six five seven three eighty eight hundred
repeat five one six five seven three eighty eight hundred.
You can go to crime online dot com and find
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out all about the case, the tip line and they
go fund me, they go find me. Help enough the
acid attack survivor take a listen to our friends at
Inside Edition. Neighbors told police and now saw County, New
York they saw three men sitting in this red car
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outside Nafia's house before the attack. She believes it was personal.
Do you know who did this? We do not know
who did this again, but we will. We will find
out who did this. Nafia faces a long road of recovery,
and she says she is actually grateful because it could
have been worse. I'll get through it with me today,
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Nafia Ekram, She says, quote, I'll get through it, and
it's grateful because it could have been worse. To Serena Fazan,
four time Amy Award winning TV anchor and reporter host
of On the Record with Serena Fazan, you know, Serena,
(18:01):
I've seen a lot of crime victims in my lifetime.
And her words, her simple words, I'll get through it.
I know. I know. Nancy inspire me so much and
I want to help her so much. What do we know, Serena,
(18:22):
Just tell me anything. We can go on, Nancy, this
is something too that you and I both so relate to.
We both have daughters right around the same age. I
only have one daughter as well. Here's what we know, though,
and here's what I'm very very curious about. This horrible,
horrific attack happens on March seventeenth. Why are we hearing
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more about it now? That's my question. Why didn't police
come out earlier to talk about this and also the
question I have to this does sound again very targeted.
Nafia said that she had not been in any type
of romantic relationship or had any type of partner and
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those of no one who would have done this to her.
But my question is for something like this to happen,
there had to be people that police interviewed crime stories
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with Nancy Grace. By all accounts, the perp was wearing
not only a hoodie, and you can see the video
of watched it over and over and over. You see
Afia Ecrumb outside her car, and you see in the
video a person running up directly to her, just as
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she describes hearing the footsteps running up and thereby a
white picket fence, literally a white picket fence, which you
think is like the all American dream. A house, a
yard and a white picket fence runs up to it.
There's cars parked along the street. It's a neighborhood, a
residential area. She's not in some seedy part of town.
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It's a lovely area. And then suddenly you see the
figure running up directly to her. She's walking away, her
back is to him, but he goes for her, and
when she turns. That's when he douses her with kind
of a white star foam to go cup. We think
is a description I'm getting in her face, covering her
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with battery acid, burns and burning her eyes. She cannot
see properly, she can't eat, and it is a miracle
she is alive. To you, and if I understand, your
father rushed you to the hospital and they got there
within five minutes. They couldn't go with the Indian rooms
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from the COVID, but they came afterwards to the er Well.
I was in the Charm Union. It may have saved
your life that your father drove the instead of waiting
for an ambulance. Guys, take a listen to our friend
James four Picks. Eleven surveillance video captured the March seventeenth attack.
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Police say that a thin man six feet two inches
tall sneaked up and attacked Ikram with a cup of
what they call a hazardous substance. Ran behind me and
didn't say anything, waited from you to turn around and
just threw it in. She's spent the last month in
medical care. I think this through out to you. Karen Smith,
Forensics expert Lecturer, University of Florida. The guy's got on
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a hoodie and gloves. And if he did he have
was there any emblem on the hoodie like a school
or a sports team. No, I couldn't see. It was
very dark. It looked like it was a dark hoodie
and clean. The only thing I noticed like he had
like a straight going down the right and left shoulder
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of the body. That was good. Do you mean down
the arms are down the shoulders arms, Yeah, from the
shoulder down to the room. A stripe going down the arms.
I'm not saying it's Adidas, but you know how they
have a stripe going down the side of the pants.
And the cup again, the cup, do you think it
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was a plain white styrofoam cup. Yeah, that's what it
looked like. Did he throw the cup down or did
he run with it? You run with it? He didn't
drop it. This is what we know. The guy is
about six feet two and he's wearing a hoodie with
stripes down the side. The hoodie's over his face and
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he's wearing gloves. That tells me Karen Smith, as Spencer
Courson was saying earlier, does he ever around the or
how else? Because he carry an open container full of
battery acid unless he drove a car there right parked
around the corner, poured the battery acid while in the car,
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and it snuck up on her. That's right. There's reports
of a red four door sedan that they're looking for,
and that's a part of the flyer for this case.
And you know, Nancy, the first place I would start
as rental car agencies. Dogs don't use their own cars.
I would start with rental car agencies. And a question
of the timeline that I have a styrofoam cup and
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you're dealing with what she described as battery acid. That
would probably be something like sulfuric acid. Styrofoam cups well,
eat through acid will melt through them. So we're dealing
with a very tight timeline. Was the bottle in the car?
They poured it in the styrofoam cup and then ran
down the streets. This is a very tight timeline that
they're working with. So I'm hoping that you know, maybe
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look at cool supply stores, auto supply dealers. Yeah, where
do you even get battery acid? Or why would you
get battery acid at a pool supply store? Yeah? Not
a pul supplant I'm sorry, auto supplies, yes, like an AutoZone. Right.
Was he a kem lab worker? Did he work in
an auto zone? Did he work in a garage somewhere
that has these things available? So it's going to be
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a little bit of a boots on the ground gumshoe detective.
Some work needs to be done here with that. You
said red sedan, which typically means a red four door, right,
that's right. Normally what we're talking about when we not
an suv, not a minivan, not a geek, not a truck,
a regular sedan. Right. The picture they have online, it
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looks like it maybe a Toyota or a Nissan, but
it's a four door, red sedan four door, that's right.
I thought Nissa one I saw it. But another issue
is where did they get the battery acid? That would
make me go to every AutoZone and auto repair shop
in that area to try to find out. Another thing
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I'm curious about to Spencer Corson is ring doorbeil cams.
You know, police have access to about eighty percent of
those right now, and you could see what car he
got into. I wonder if the police have checked that
in the neighborhood, not only did that, Nancy, but in
addition to all those other places you can get battery asked,
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you can get acid at Target Low's any home supply store.
But to your point about the importance of ring video cameras,
this was not the first time that perpetrator was at
this residence. At some point, some research and planning had
to have been done so that he knew where to
pre stage so that he could come up behind her.
So those video cameras, while it's great that they captured
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the initial incident, the historic record of those cameras will
also provide t clues as to who this individual was.
I want to think about the ring doorbell aspect to
Sharina Mohammed. This is Nafia's mother, Miss Muhammed. Have the
police shared with you if they are trying to get
neighborhood surveillance. Yes, they did mention they burn around the
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neighborhood and check the neighborhood cameras. They did say that, well,
I mean the guy had to run to somewhere. Did
nobody's camera pick up where he ran to, Miss Muhammad?
They didn't. They did not give us any information. They
just keep telling us they don't have any lydia. It
is very unclear if Nafea will regain her vision. Ever,
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the ASCID caused her context to melt into her eyes,
is my understanding. We don't know the motivation. I'm looking
right at the vehicle and you can see it. It's
been released by Crime Stoppers and the Nassau County Police
Department and you can find it at crime online dot com.
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The exact car. Another issue I'm wondering about Wendy Pastrick.
I mean, for Pete's sake, maybe they should consult Target
in Walmart because they seem to catch every detail of
what's going on in their store. Why can't we enhance
that tag plight. I think eventually we'll be able to
not only do all of the clues follow up that
we've discussed already, but I think they're also going to
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maybe decide this is somebody that knew what time she
got home because the fact that when she was getting
out of her car and Nefia, you are in my prayers,
you and your loving family, But you describe getting out
of your car being surprisingly observant. After a ten hour shift,
you noticed something out of place, this guy waiting there,
which is what it sounds like so maybe it's more
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we talk about disgruntled clients and disgruntled professional contacts that
we don't know about. I mean, half the people that
are stopped don't even know who their spin offers are,
only to find that there's some sort of a professional connection. Maybe,
in addition to enhancing the evidence, as Nancy points out
that I hope the police are doing, maybe they're also
going to figure out who professionally might know your hours,
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your shift, or have some unspoken grievance that waited for you,
as you mentioned. So I'm looking forward to finding out
those clues as well. Take a listen to our friends
at ABC seven. Police have increased the reward for information
leading to the arrest and conviction of this individual from
five thousand dollars to twenty thousand dollars. They are still
trying to figure out a possible motive. We have no
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evidence at this time to say it was a hate crime.
We have no evans at this time to say that
it was not a hate crime. We treat off victims
the same. Twenty one year old Hofster pre med student
in Nofia Ikram believes she was targeted in the March
seventeenth attack, but she doesn't know why. I was in
the ambulance and I felt my chest being ripped out
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of my soul. That's how much pain I was in.
Investigators are testing the substance to figure out what exactly
it was. Ikram suffered first and second degree burns and
can't see out of her right eye. Both parents received
and try to help the daughter. She screamed for help.
They received burns at a hand. Also, when the acid
was thrown into Naphia's face, it caused her to scream
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and then the acid got into her mouth. Her tongue
and throat were burned as a result. But hey, you're
interested in twenty grand anybody, because the reward for information
leading to the arrest and conviction of this monster, this ghoul,
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this devil straight from hell is now up to twenty
thousand dollars twenty thousand dollars for information helping to solve
this brutal crime on a beautiful young girl going into medicine.
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Tipline five one, six, five, seven, three eighty eight hundred
Crime stories with Nancy Grace to doctor Jory Crawsen, psychologist,
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faculty Saint Leo University and author doctor Jory. He did
not want to kill her, He did not want to
sex assault her or rape her. He did not want
to steal from her. That's really narrowing down the motives, right, Yes,
it is, and especially the choice of weapons, which is
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the acid that's meant to cause pain and inflict disfigurement
and disfigurement. Yes, And so you know that really does
narrow down for a profile. It could be somebody that
just felt slighted by her in some capacity, not to
necessary a relationship, but you know, some person that wanted
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to injure her to this level of severity. You know,
he fled in a red twenty thirteen to fifteen Nissan Altima,
a red Nissan Ultima twenty thirteen to fifteen. And you
know how they know that. I learned this as a prosecutor.
When I first went to homicide, I walked through the
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car theft division and they have stacks and stacks of
photo albums every year or other year. The tail lights,
the front lights, something on a car is redesigned, I think,
simply for the sake of change. And by that simple redesign,
say of a tail light, you can determine the make
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model a year, A particular car was released twenty thirteen
to fifteen Nissan Ultima, according to police. Now, I want
to go back to the possibility that this is targeted,
which I think it is. Nafia is with us. She's
speaking very faintly, so listen very carefully, Nafia, and to
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your mom Sharina, thank you for being with us. Nafia.
You're in school. Do you know of anyone that you
have rejected or somebody that has a crush on you
or someone you think it's harmless but you don't really
know them that are always hanging around. No, especially since
(32:28):
because of COVID the classes were annoying, so I wasn't
really going into classes or anything like that to be
around people from your school. How about work? No, I
mean possibly because I speak to so many people and
to be basis, but I've never had any altercation with anyone,
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so I don't think it would be an altercation necessarily.
I mean, Sharena, your daughter is beautiful. There are wackos
out there. They get crushes with absolutely no suggestion from
the woman that they're interested, or sometimes the woman doesn't
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even know someone has a crush, but they do. Right,
And I'm just thinking Straina, Where does your daughter work?
She works on CBS to tech. She works involved in
so she sees people every day that she doesn't really know.
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Take a listen to our friends Sefan Kim, ABC seven.
My advice is, could surrender yourself now because we're coming
for you. The Nassau County Police Commissioner were the message
for the man seeing in this video committing an unthinkable
hanous act throwing some kind of hazardous corrosive liquid in
the fia it Crumb's face. Police now in a man
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hunt and releasing new leads. The vehicle that we have
on video at multiple locations is a two twenty thirteenth
twenty fifteen red Nissan Altima with yellow New York plates.
The twenty one year old pre met student at Hofstra University,
telling I went this news last night. She noticed the
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suspect as soon as she got home that night. I
see someone standing at the end of the walk by
the stop sign, just looking at me, and I thought
that was really weird because, especially in our neighborhood, it's
a very quiet, and being that it was like March,
it's cold, especially at night, you don't see people walking around.
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Why did they know what time I'd be home. It
was like they were waiting for me. That's more information.
New York Plates, New York Plights on a red Nissan
Altima twenty thirteen to twenty fifteen, Karen Smith, That's a
lot of information. That's fantastic information. And I'm going to
walk back my theory about the rental car because of
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twenty thirteen to twenty fifteen, no rental car agency is
going to have a car that old. You know, it's
going to belong to somebody. Somebody has that car registered
in their name. I'm really hoping that they can enhance
that license flight somehow too. Nafi, how has this changed
your life? Honestly, it's changed my life in every possible way.
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As a big bolt. The main thing in the beginning
was that I couldn't see out of my right eye,
and I thought that that was bad. But now like
the fact that I can't really like I live on
protein shakes. I struggle to even like have raman noodles,
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like I can't even meet that. Oh, just basic things
like I love seeing, like choose it and like sooner sandwiches.
I can't have anything that's even as sauces r They
just look what on my throat. So that's the major thing.
And then I don't work anymore, I don't go to school.
I used to exercise a lot, I used to have
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a life outside of you know, work. I used to
have a social life, not partying and stuff like that.
But I just mean, like something simple is going out
to get ice creams. I'm so traumatized now I wouldn't go.
Or like walking around the block because I saw that
man standing at the end of my walk is just
traumatizing to me, like being in my own backyard alone,
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traumatizing because this is what happened. Different forts Sharina Muhammad.
This is Nephia's mother. What are the doctors saying, Well,
it's going to be a long road. They're treating her.
She had eyelid surgery or less any day, because so
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the healing process is causing a lot of scoring and
things are getting shifted in her face, her eyes, the
same problem with her throat. So she's going to have
multiple surgery stepped by step. See how it's feeling and progressing. Unfortunately,
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we did not anticipate such degree of damage, and we're
really shocked. And my daughter is getting more devastated every
day as more things are getting complicated, they cannot predict
and give us they definite answer as so what will happen.
(37:25):
They just have to explain one day at the time,
one procedure at a time. They're going to try to,
you know, do the eye surgery and then check her
carnia see any vision comes back. So at this point
in time, we do not have any definite diagnosis of
what's going to happen to her, which is very devastating
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to us. For those of you listening now, if you
have information or think you have information, we beg you
to call five one six five seven three eight hundred
five one six five seventy three eight eight hundred or
go to the go fund me. They desperately need our help.
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Help Nafia in a f as in Frank I a
h help Nafia acid attack survivor get justice it gofund
me Nafia. What do you miss the most right now?
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Eating what I want to eat? But because honestly, like young,
my face is a little different right now, the skin
heal the fact that like I have to watch my
parents eat certainting, like yesterday they had pizza and I
was just saying, like I miss eating that, you know
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could honestly because of the fact that I'm pre med.
I'm going to share a like the whole fact, which is,
let's say, like you're depressed or you're feeling down. You
know how people say, like if you eat ice cream
or chocolate, you'll cheer up. That's because eating something you
enjoy releases dope mean in your brain, which is critical
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to your mood. So like, for example, if I'm craving
Chipotle and I go get Chipotle and I eat it,
the dopeine levels in my brain are gonna go higher,
which will increase my levels of happiness. So let's say
like I look in the mirror and I remember that
my vision is horrible and my face is messed up.
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At least I can eat my Chipotle and a little
bit of my happiness will be there. But the fact
that I crave certain things where I see my parents
eat certain things that I can't have. Like two nights ago,
I had a dream that I was eating something that
I loved to eat, and then I woke up and
I remembered I'm having such high time swallowing that this
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is my reality. And then I read that even before
this happened. I'm sorry. Before the swallowing issue happened, I
was in the hospital because of the fact that they
had me on sterres and stuff. The information has been
as bad, it got a little better, so when I
came home, I was eating a lot better and then
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in a downhill. But even before the swallowing issue happened,
the vision, like I've said, was the vat issue for me.
But now this it just makes me a lot more
because because like I said, food contributes to our happiness,
bubbles and our breath, so that's definitely something. Nafia, you
said that your face is different. What do you mean?
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I don't look the same at all the way I
used to look before. My face now is just complete
and it's gonna take a long time to heal. I
know all heal, but like the skin color is very red,
it's very swollen. Oh, I'll just listen to from who who?
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Who would do this? We wait as just as some faults,
and in the meantime we continue to pray. Goodbye friend,
Crime Stories with Nancy Grace, twenty one years old. At
that age, I can still remember you feel like you
have your life in front of you, with dreams and
hopes and plans. It's hard for me to imagine what
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this young girl, Nefia has been through to be in
college at an awesome New York university and you're heading
home and then out of the blue, a man appears
and throws a liquid into your face and you have
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no idea who, why, or what. We now know it
was some sort of battery acid. Crime Stories with Nancy Grace.
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I want justice. I want justice so deeply. I have
a little girl, she's thirteen. I have a little boy thirteen.
I cannot imagine the pain not only she but her
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parents are going through and with us today, the mom
and this beautiful girl just twenty one. But we need you.
I'm Nancy Grace. This is Crime Stories. Thank you for
being with us here at Fox Nation and Serious X
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one eleven. Listen, a college student is heading home, it
is eight thirty at night. Suddenly, out of nowhere, a
man comes up behind her. Then he does the unspeakable.
He throws a liquid substance into twenty one year old
Nafia Akrom's face. Nafia works part time as a pharmacy
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tech and was coming home after a long shift. She
was getting out of the car and walking towards the
home on Long Island she lives with her parents. You
could see in the video the man comes sprinting from
this direction and throws acid right on her face. I
felt like it was kind of warm juice. It was
like a room temperature, and it didn't stick to my
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face right away, didn't burn right away, So I just
thought I'd just been pranked. A couple of seconds later,
I'm walking down the driveway after he did that, and
my face starts burnie. At first, she thought she had
been pranked. Take a listen to more of what our
friends at Inside Edition learned. Do they know what kind
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of acid? It's like the acid that they put in batteries.
I personally think that this was definitely premeditated and personal.
Do you think you were targeted? I think so. The
attack left TV personality Padma Lakshmi At shaken. Her driver
is no FIA's father. This Pakistani family is such a
(03:22):
nice family. I've known them for over a decade. They
don't even know if she'll be able to see properly
ever again, because she had contacts in and the acid
burned and melted the contacts into her eyes. With Me
and All Star Panel to make sense of what we
know so far, analyzing the clues left behind. Wendy Patrick,
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California prosecutor, author of Red Flags. You can find her
at Wendy Patrick PhD dot com. She's also the host
of Today with Doctor Wendy KCBQ, San Diego. Doctor Jerry Krawsen, psychologist,
faculty Saint Leo University, Research consultant and author of Operation
s o S Practical Recommendations to help Stop Officers Suicide.
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Karen L. Smith, forensic expert, Lecturer, University Florida and host
of Shattered Souls podcast. Spencer Coursen, Founder President Corson Security
Group at Courson Security Group dot com and author of
The Safety Sharp of Securities Experts Secrets for Staying Safe
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in a Dangerous World. And Serena Fazan four time Emmy
Award winning anchor reporter Serena Fazzon Media. You can find
her at Serena Fazan dot Media and on her podcast
On the Record with Serena Fazan. But first joining us.
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Sharena Muhammad, this is the victim's mother, and Nafia Crum.
Nafia and Sharena especially thank you for being with us. Nafia,
tell me what happened? Eight thirty in the evening. You're
leaving school, heading home where you live with your parents.
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What happened? Back break in the car and my um
sash in the back seat? They winner on the car
and when I called you, they wearing I looked through
the right because the tuning room, and at this time
in my back I saw a male figure standing there
just looking at me, and I got a little creep out. Now,
(05:30):
hold on, hold on, Nafita right there? Are you telling
me you're in your car? I was leaving my car,
was like at the back seat, in the back seat
getting more stuff out. Okay, I'm having a hard time
hearing you. So you're you're leaving your car and you're
getting things out of the back seat. Is that what
you said? Yeah? Oh gosh, that's the time when you're
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very defenseless, like people at malls getting stuff out of
their trunk or their back seat. You're not you don't
really know what going on to either side or behind you.
So you've been getting stuff in or out of your
back seat. And then what happened? If as I'm turning
around and leaving my car, I shut the door. I
turned to my right, and I see someone standing at
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the end of my block just looking at me. I
got a little creeped out, so I started to walk
down my driveway very quickly, and that's when I heard
footsteps and running up behind me. So I turned around.
So you're already at home. You're at your parents' home, right, Okay,
all right? That helps me a lot to understand that
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I knew you were leaving school and going toward your parents,
but you had made it there, got out of the car,
got stuff out of the back seat. You were getting
up and you see this guy at the end of
the block. What did he look like? And it couldn't
really see much because it was dark. It looked like
he had a dark creaming over his head, and his
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arm looked like they were across in front of him.
That was all I saw from the distops that I
was at. Could you tell what color hair he had?
Was he why was he black? Anything? No? Nothing? I
couldn't see anything about his feet. Okay, Then what happened?
And I started to walk down my driveway very quickly
because I got to spoon because in our neighborhood, especially
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like in March, it was cold. You don't see someone
walking around the block or anywhere like outside unless it's summer.
So that was just weird in itself. I started to
walk down the driveway very quickly, and I heard footsteps
running up behind me. So I turned around, and that's
when it happened. You say you turned around because you
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heard footsteps, and that is when it happened. What happened.
I turned around and he was standing right in front
of meat, about like less than a foot away. He
had a cup in the can, and as soon as
I like tried to a closer look, he dashed something
in my face. I didn't know what it was at
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the time. It kind of felt, like I said in
other interviews, like a warm news because that's the only
way to really describe it, like, you know, the substance
of the liquid. And then I started to walk down
my job really closer to my back door, and I
was just like, okay, like what was that? Because I
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thought like maybe he was going to attack me or
kidnapped me or something, but like to just dash a
liquid in my face and run away. I was like,
that's weird, and then a couple of seconds later started
to burn. So that's when I started to tif question.
Do you remember what the cup looked like? Was it
an open container? Did it have some sort of a
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lid on it? No, it was an open continuer and
it was like it was really big, white fully cup,
a really big Are you talking like a coffee cup? Yeah,
like one of those very big or a cup from
a fast you Yeah, exactly the ones you could get
where I'm going to say, the one you to get
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at like seven eleven or like a debby at where
at like seven eleven, like a big gulp cup type thing,
didn't have a handle on it. No at terrible okay,
star foam. So when you're saying a cup, you mean
like a to go cup from McDonald's or something, not
a coffee cup with a handle. No, okay, I'm asking
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for a reason. I'm asking for a reason. And M.
Spencer Corson, founder and president of Course and Security Group,
to me, that's critical information to you? Why that means
this person that through acid in a FIA's face and
my mind came from somewhere nearby, because how can you
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travel with an open container a battery acid? You're exactly
correct answer this pre planned act and whether or not
that acid was already in the cup or if he
made it on the fly just prior to the attack.
This was a clearly identified and researched and you know
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this the retribution of a grievance held by this by
this predator. But yet she didn't recognize him. Time stories
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with Nancy Grace. Let me go back to Nafia Akrom
joining us along with her mother, Shrina Muhammad Nafia. When
he got up close to you, was there any recognition?
Do you think you know him or have seen him?
Any hint of recognition on your part? Well, because when
he got close to me, I tried to get a
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little closure of a look, and I remember as soon
as I started to squint and I moved my head
a little closer to him to see his face, that's
when he threw the liquid in my face, and that's
how it ended up getting in my eye. What did
you do? Van? I turned around and continued walking down
the driveway. A little shock because that's not what I expected.
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And then it started to burn, so I began to panic,
and then I ran to the back door where my
dad was standing in the kitchen, and I told him
what happened. I was crying, and then he realized. He
said that he saw like my face turned gray and
it looked like there was blood dripping down my shoulder,
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which actually was just the color of the acid on
my coat, but it looked red. So he freaked out
and that's when he started screaming. For like, my mom
took call nine one one. She was in the bathroom.
She came dashing out and then they go start too.
Started to take off my coat and undress me so
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that they could wash off my face and stuff while
the ambulance came. Did they wash off your face? Yeah?
They began to do that in the kitchen sink, and
then my dad was on the phone with the cops.
So her mom took me in the bathtub and started
to throw water in my face with the cups. He
told me to sit down and she was washing my face,
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and as she was doing that, I remember telling her
that I couldn't breathe because my tongue started to get
swollen and I began to drool. I just thank god,
you're alive. I thank god, you're alive. Thank you. Yeah, Nafia,
have you gotten any of your eyesight back yet? It's
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still singing on before I can see colors, but nothing
other than that. It's a very ter me and blurning still,
but that's only in the right eye. The left gy
is okay with me? Is and if his mother or Sharena,
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Miss Muhammad, I'm so sorry for what your daughter and
your family are living through right now. If there's any
way we can help you, we will do it. The
tipline everyone five one six five seven three eighty eight
hundred repeat five one six five seventy three eighty eight hundred.
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This is not just a headline. This is not the
plot of a movie or a TV crime show. This
is real with real people and real hurting that are
looking for answers. If you know anything or think you
know anything, please dial five one six five seven three
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eighty eight hundred. There is also a go fund me
help Naphia acid attack survivor. Miss Muhammad. Please tell me
what you recall of that evening. Thank you for allowing
us and inviting us to her show. I means a
lot to us. So I came home after a twelve
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hour shift. I picked my daughter up from where she
had completed a ten hour shift t trail of home,
and so I went in like just almost a minute
before her two years of washroom case. She came in
behind me, and as she explained what happened, I was
in the washroom and I heard my husband screaming call
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nine one one, And as Snaphia explained what happened, it
was We still feel like we're living a dream. I
still feel numb. I still cannot believe where this is
our actual real life we're experiencing. It's not getting any
easier for us. My daughter is having a lot of complications.
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She cannot even eat food, be still on liquids. We
had not anticipated all of this major complication and complexity
of the damage that the acid has caused. I don't know,
we don't know how long it's going to take. She
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will never be the same again. And as you mentioned,
she's a young girl, twenty one years old. She's my
only child. And we're just playing and begging anybody's help
if they have any clue to please help us. That's
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the main most important how we can get and also prayers,
and we're forever grateful for everyone to help us to
go fundly because we're I had no idea it was
going to be so costly and complex, and we have
no idea of not working. My daughter is not working.
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She's everything to me and I don't care about working.
I want to be here for my daughter. She needs
me and she's all I huh. So I want to
thank everyone and please beg everyone to come out and
call that number if they have any clue that can
help us find this monster that it is to my daughter.
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You're hearing the voice of Shoeini Muhammad. She is the
mother of Nafia Ikram. Please help her. The tip line
is five one six five seven three eighty eight hundred
repeat five one six five seven three eighty eight hundred.
You can go to crime online dot com and find
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out all about the case, the tip line and they
go fund me, they go find me. Help enough the
acid attack survivor take a listen to our friends at
Inside Edition. Neighbors told police and now saw County, New
York they saw three men sitting in this red car
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outside Nafia's house before the attack. She believes it was personal.
Do you know who did this? We do not know
who did this again, but we will. We will find
out who did this. Nafia faces a long road of recovery,
and she says she is actually grateful because it could
have been worse. I'll get through it with me today,
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Nafia Ekram, She says, quote, I'll get through it, and
it's grateful because it could have been worse. To Serena Fazan,
four time Amy Award winning TV anchor and reporter host
of On the Record with Serena Fazan, you know, Serena,
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I've seen a lot of crime victims in my lifetime.
And her words, her simple words, I'll get through it.
I know. I know. Nancy inspire me so much and
I want to help her so much. What do we know, Serena,
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Just tell me anything. We can go on, Nancy, this
is something too that you and I both so relate to.
We both have daughters right around the same age. I
only have one daughter as well. Here's what we know, though,
and here's what I'm very very curious about. This horrible,
horrific attack happens on March seventeenth. Why are we hearing
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more about it now? That's my question. Why didn't police
come out earlier to talk about this and also the
question I have to this does sound again very targeted.
Nafia said that she had not been in any type
of romantic relationship or had any type of partner and
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those of no one who would have done this to her.
But my question is for something like this to happen,
there had to be people that police interviewed crime stories
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with Nancy Grace. By all accounts, the perp was wearing
not only a hoodie, and you can see the video
of watched it over and over and over. You see
Afia Ecrumb outside her car, and you see in the
video a person running up directly to her, just as
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she describes hearing the footsteps running up and thereby a
white picket fence, literally a white picket fence, which you
think is like the all American dream. A house, a
yard and a white picket fence runs up to it.
There's cars parked along the street. It's a neighborhood, a
residential area. She's not in some seedy part of town.
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It's a lovely area. And then suddenly you see the
figure running up directly to her. She's walking away, her
back is to him, but he goes for her, and
when she turns. That's when he douses her with kind
of a white star foam to go cup. We think
is a description I'm getting in her face, covering her
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with battery acid, burns and burning her eyes. She cannot
see properly, she can't eat, and it is a miracle
she is alive. To you, and if I understand, your
father rushed you to the hospital and they got there
within five minutes. They couldn't go with the Indian rooms
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from the COVID, but they came afterwards to the er Well.
I was in the Charm Union. It may have saved
your life that your father drove the instead of waiting
for an ambulance. Guys, take a listen to our friend
James four Picks. Eleven surveillance video captured the March seventeenth attack.
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Police say that a thin man six feet two inches
tall sneaked up and attacked Ikram with a cup of
what they call a hazardous substance. Ran behind me and
didn't say anything, waited from you to turn around and
just threw it in. She's spent the last month in
medical care. I think this through out to you. Karen Smith,
Forensics expert Lecturer, University of Florida. The guy's got on
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a hoodie and gloves. And if he did he have
was there any emblem on the hoodie like a school
or a sports team. No, I couldn't see. It was
very dark. It looked like it was a dark hoodie
and clean. The only thing I noticed like he had
like a straight going down the right and left shoulder
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of the body. That was good. Do you mean down
the arms are down the shoulders arms, Yeah, from the
shoulder down to the room. A stripe going down the arms.
I'm not saying it's Adidas, but you know how they
have a stripe going down the side of the pants.
And the cup again, the cup, do you think it
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was a plain white styrofoam cup. Yeah, that's what it
looked like. Did he throw the cup down or did
he run with it? You run with it? He didn't
drop it. This is what we know. The guy is
about six feet two and he's wearing a hoodie with
stripes down the side. The hoodie's over his face and
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he's wearing gloves. That tells me Karen Smith, as Spencer
Courson was saying earlier, does he ever around the or
how else? Because he carry an open container full of
battery acid unless he drove a car there right parked
around the corner, poured the battery acid while in the car,
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and it snuck up on her. That's right. There's reports
of a red four door sedan that they're looking for,
and that's a part of the flyer for this case.
And you know, Nancy, the first place I would start
as rental car agencies. Dogs don't use their own cars.
I would start with rental car agencies. And a question
of the timeline that I have a styrofoam cup and
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you're dealing with what she described as battery acid. That
would probably be something like sulfuric acid. Styrofoam cups well,
eat through acid will melt through them. So we're dealing
with a very tight timeline. Was the bottle in the car?
They poured it in the styrofoam cup and then ran
down the streets. This is a very tight timeline that
they're working with. So I'm hoping that you know, maybe
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look at cool supply stores, auto supply dealers. Yeah, where
do you even get battery acid? Or why would you
get battery acid at a pool supply store? Yeah? Not
a pul supplant I'm sorry, auto supplies, yes, like an AutoZone. Right.
Was he a kem lab worker? Did he work in
an auto zone? Did he work in a garage somewhere
that has these things available? So it's going to be
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a little bit of a boots on the ground gumshoe detective.
Some work needs to be done here with that. You
said red sedan, which typically means a red four door, right,
that's right. Normally what we're talking about when we not
an suv, not a minivan, not a geek, not a truck,
a regular sedan. Right. The picture they have online, it
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looks like it maybe a Toyota or a Nissan, but
it's a four door, red sedan four door, that's right.
I thought Nissa one I saw it. But another issue
is where did they get the battery acid? That would
make me go to every AutoZone and auto repair shop
in that area to try to find out. Another thing
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I'm curious about to Spencer Corson is ring doorbeil cams.
You know, police have access to about eighty percent of
those right now, and you could see what car he
got into. I wonder if the police have checked that
in the neighborhood, not only did that, Nancy, but in
addition to all those other places you can get battery asked,
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you can get acid at Target Low's any home supply store.
But to your point about the importance of ring video cameras,
this was not the first time that perpetrator was at
this residence. At some point, some research and planning had
to have been done so that he knew where to
pre stage so that he could come up behind her.
So those video cameras, while it's great that they captured
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the initial incident, the historic record of those cameras will
also provide t clues as to who this individual was.
I want to think about the ring doorbell aspect to
Sharina Mohammed. This is Nafia's mother, Miss Muhammed. Have the
police shared with you if they are trying to get
neighborhood surveillance. Yes, they did mention they burn around the
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neighborhood and check the neighborhood cameras. They did say that, well,
I mean the guy had to run to somewhere. Did
nobody's camera pick up where he ran to, Miss Muhammad?
They didn't. They did not give us any information. They
just keep telling us they don't have any lydia. It
is very unclear if Nafea will regain her vision. Ever,
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the ASCID caused her context to melt into her eyes,
is my understanding. We don't know the motivation. I'm looking
right at the vehicle and you can see it. It's
been released by Crime Stoppers and the Nassau County Police
Department and you can find it at crime online dot com.
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The exact car. Another issue I'm wondering about Wendy Pastrick.
I mean, for Pete's sake, maybe they should consult Target
in Walmart because they seem to catch every detail of
what's going on in their store. Why can't we enhance
that tag plight. I think eventually we'll be able to
not only do all of the clues follow up that
we've discussed already, but I think they're also going to
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maybe decide this is somebody that knew what time she
got home because the fact that when she was getting
out of her car and Nefia, you are in my prayers,
you and your loving family, But you describe getting out
of your car being surprisingly observant. After a ten hour shift,
you noticed something out of place, this guy waiting there,
which is what it sounds like so maybe it's more
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we talk about disgruntled clients and disgruntled professional contacts that
we don't know about. I mean, half the people that
are stopped don't even know who their spin offers are,
only to find that there's some sort of a professional connection. Maybe,
in addition to enhancing the evidence, as Nancy points out
that I hope the police are doing, maybe they're also
going to figure out who professionally might know your hours,
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your shift, or have some unspoken grievance that waited for you,
as you mentioned. So I'm looking forward to finding out
those clues as well. Take a listen to our friends
at ABC seven. Police have increased the reward for information
leading to the arrest and conviction of this individual from
five thousand dollars to twenty thousand dollars. They are still
trying to figure out a possible motive. We have no
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evidence at this time to say it was a hate crime.
We have no evans at this time to say that
it was not a hate crime. We treat off victims
the same. Twenty one year old Hofster pre med student
in Nofia Ikram believes she was targeted in the March
seventeenth attack, but she doesn't know why. I was in
the ambulance and I felt my chest being ripped out
(28:41):
of my soul. That's how much pain I was in.
Investigators are testing the substance to figure out what exactly
it was. Ikram suffered first and second degree burns and
can't see out of her right eye. Both parents received
and try to help the daughter. She screamed for help.
They received burns at a hand. Also, when the acid
was thrown into Naphia's face, it caused her to scream
(29:03):
and then the acid got into her mouth. Her tongue
and throat were burned as a result. But hey, you're
interested in twenty grand anybody, because the reward for information
leading to the arrest and conviction of this monster, this ghoul,
(29:26):
this devil straight from hell is now up to twenty
thousand dollars twenty thousand dollars for information helping to solve
this brutal crime on a beautiful young girl going into medicine.
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Tipline five one, six, five, seven, three eighty eight hundred
Crime stories with Nancy Grace to doctor Jory Crawsen, psychologist,
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faculty Saint Leo University and author doctor Jory. He did
not want to kill her, He did not want to
sex assault her or rape her. He did not want
to steal from her. That's really narrowing down the motives, right, Yes,
it is, and especially the choice of weapons, which is
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the acid that's meant to cause pain and inflict disfigurement
and disfigurement. Yes, And so you know that really does
narrow down for a profile. It could be somebody that
just felt slighted by her in some capacity, not to
necessary a relationship, but you know, some person that wanted
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to injure her to this level of severity. You know,
he fled in a red twenty thirteen to fifteen Nissan Altima,
a red Nissan Ultima twenty thirteen to fifteen. And you
know how they know that. I learned this as a prosecutor.
When I first went to homicide, I walked through the
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car theft division and they have stacks and stacks of
photo albums every year or other year. The tail lights,
the front lights, something on a car is redesigned, I think,
simply for the sake of change. And by that simple redesign,
say of a tail light, you can determine the make
(31:43):
model a year, A particular car was released twenty thirteen
to fifteen Nissan Ultima, according to police. Now, I want
to go back to the possibility that this is targeted,
which I think it is. Nafia is with us. She's
speaking very faintly, so listen very carefully, Nafia, and to
(32:06):
your mom Sharina, thank you for being with us. Nafia.
You're in school. Do you know of anyone that you
have rejected or somebody that has a crush on you
or someone you think it's harmless but you don't really
know them that are always hanging around. No, especially since
(32:28):
because of COVID the classes were annoying, so I wasn't
really going into classes or anything like that to be
around people from your school. How about work? No, I
mean possibly because I speak to so many people and
to be basis, but I've never had any altercation with anyone,
(32:49):
so I don't think it would be an altercation necessarily.
I mean, Sharena, your daughter is beautiful. There are wackos
out there. They get crushes with absolutely no suggestion from
the woman that they're interested, or sometimes the woman doesn't
(33:10):
even know someone has a crush, but they do. Right,
And I'm just thinking Straina, Where does your daughter work?
She works on CBS to tech. She works involved in
so she sees people every day that she doesn't really know.
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Take a listen to our friends Sefan Kim, ABC seven.
My advice is, could surrender yourself now because we're coming
for you. The Nassau County Police Commissioner were the message
for the man seeing in this video committing an unthinkable
hanous act throwing some kind of hazardous corrosive liquid in
the fia it Crumb's face. Police now in a man
(33:51):
hunt and releasing new leads. The vehicle that we have
on video at multiple locations is a two twenty thirteenth
twenty fifteen red Nissan Altima with yellow New York plates.
The twenty one year old pre met student at Hofstra University,
telling I went this news last night. She noticed the
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suspect as soon as she got home that night. I
see someone standing at the end of the walk by
the stop sign, just looking at me, and I thought
that was really weird because, especially in our neighborhood, it's
a very quiet, and being that it was like March,
it's cold, especially at night, you don't see people walking around.
(34:31):
Why did they know what time I'd be home. It
was like they were waiting for me. That's more information.
New York Plates, New York Plights on a red Nissan
Altima twenty thirteen to twenty fifteen, Karen Smith, That's a
lot of information. That's fantastic information. And I'm going to
walk back my theory about the rental car because of
(34:52):
twenty thirteen to twenty fifteen, no rental car agency is
going to have a car that old. You know, it's
going to belong to somebody. Somebody has that car registered
in their name. I'm really hoping that they can enhance
that license flight somehow too. Nafi, how has this changed
your life? Honestly, it's changed my life in every possible way.
(35:14):
As a big bolt. The main thing in the beginning
was that I couldn't see out of my right eye,
and I thought that that was bad. But now like
the fact that I can't really like I live on
protein shakes. I struggle to even like have raman noodles,
(35:35):
like I can't even meet that. Oh, just basic things
like I love seeing, like choose it and like sooner sandwiches.
I can't have anything that's even as sauces r They
just look what on my throat. So that's the major thing.
And then I don't work anymore, I don't go to school.
I used to exercise a lot, I used to have
(35:58):
a life outside of you know, work. I used to
have a social life, not partying and stuff like that.
But I just mean, like something simple is going out
to get ice creams. I'm so traumatized now I wouldn't go.
Or like walking around the block because I saw that
man standing at the end of my walk is just
traumatizing to me, like being in my own backyard alone,
(36:21):
traumatizing because this is what happened. Different forts Sharina Muhammad.
This is Nephia's mother. What are the doctors saying, Well,
it's going to be a long road. They're treating her.
She had eyelid surgery or less any day, because so
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the healing process is causing a lot of scoring and
things are getting shifted in her face, her eyes, the
same problem with her throat. So she's going to have
multiple surgery stepped by step. See how it's feeling and progressing. Unfortunately,
(37:05):
we did not anticipate such degree of damage, and we're
really shocked. And my daughter is getting more devastated every
day as more things are getting complicated, they cannot predict
and give us they definite answer as so what will happen.
(37:25):
They just have to explain one day at the time,
one procedure at a time. They're going to try to,
you know, do the eye surgery and then check her
carnia see any vision comes back. So at this point
in time, we do not have any definite diagnosis of
what's going to happen to her, which is very devastating
(37:48):
to us. For those of you listening now, if you
have information or think you have information, we beg you
to call five one six five seven three eight hundred
five one six five seventy three eight eight hundred or
go to the go fund me. They desperately need our help.
(38:09):
Help Nafia in a f as in Frank I a
h help Nafia acid attack survivor get justice it gofund
me Nafia. What do you miss the most right now?
(38:32):
Eating what I want to eat? But because honestly, like young,
my face is a little different right now, the skin
heal the fact that like I have to watch my
parents eat certainting, like yesterday they had pizza and I
was just saying, like I miss eating that, you know
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could honestly because of the fact that I'm pre med.
I'm going to share a like the whole fact, which is,
let's say, like you're depressed or you're feeling down. You
know how people say, like if you eat ice cream
or chocolate, you'll cheer up. That's because eating something you
enjoy releases dope mean in your brain, which is critical
(39:19):
to your mood. So like, for example, if I'm craving
Chipotle and I go get Chipotle and I eat it,
the dopeine levels in my brain are gonna go higher,
which will increase my levels of happiness. So let's say
like I look in the mirror and I remember that
my vision is horrible and my face is messed up.
(39:41):
At least I can eat my Chipotle and a little
bit of my happiness will be there. But the fact
that I crave certain things where I see my parents
eat certain things that I can't have. Like two nights ago,
I had a dream that I was eating something that
I loved to eat, and then I woke up and
I remembered I'm having such high time swallowing that this
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is my reality. And then I read that even before
this happened. I'm sorry. Before the swallowing issue happened, I
was in the hospital because of the fact that they
had me on sterres and stuff. The information has been
as bad, it got a little better, so when I
came home, I was eating a lot better and then
(40:23):
in a downhill. But even before the swallowing issue happened,
the vision, like I've said, was the vat issue for me.
But now this it just makes me a lot more
because because like I said, food contributes to our happiness,
bubbles and our breath, so that's definitely something. Nafia, you
said that your face is different. What do you mean?
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I don't look the same at all the way I
used to look before. My face now is just complete
and it's gonna take a long time to heal. I
know all heal, but like the skin color is very red,
it's very swollen. Oh, I'll just listen to from who who?
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Who would do this? We wait as just as some faults,
and in the meantime we continue to pray. Goodbye friend,
Host
Nancy Grace
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