Student shot dead in Alabama forest by woman posing as stranded motorist, police say
by Maya Yang from US news | The Guardian on (#62QGG)
Duo charged with murder over killing of Adam Simjee, 22, who was forced to walk into woods with girlfriend and died after gunfight
When Adam Simjee and his girlfriend Mikayla Paulus stopped their car in the Talladega national forest in Alabama last week, after being flagged down by what the college students thought was a stranded driver, the couple did not think much of it.
But the stranded driver" - a woman named Yasmine Hider - turned out to be a gun-wielding robber who forced Simjee, 22, and Paulus, 20, to walk into the woods. Simjee pulled out his own handgun and shot Hider in defense of his girlfriend and himself, but he did not survive the confrontation - police allege Hider shot him dead.
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