Samantha Woll, 40, was the president of the Isaac Agree Downtown Synagogue. Detroit's police chief urged the public not to speculate on motive.

A Detroit synagogue president was found fatally stabbed outside her home Saturday morning.

Samantha Woll, 40, led the congregation of Isaac Agree Downtown Synagogue. The synagogue confirmed Woll’s death Saturday in a statement writing, “We are shocked and saddened to learn of the unexpected death of Samantha Woll, our Board President.”

“May her memory be a blessing,” the statement continued.

Authorities said a 911 call was made to Woll’s home early Saturday, reporting an individual lying on the ground unresponsive. Police discovered multiple stab wounds on Woll’s body and found a trail of blood leading to her house, where they believe the crime occurred.

An investigation is underway. At this time, the motive for the crime remains unknown.

  • halfempty@kbin.social
    377·
    2 years ago

    Far right white supremacist killings of Jews is far more prevalent in the US than Muslim killings of Jews. My first suspects would be among the extreme right.

    • gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      52·
      2 years ago

      Out of morbid curiosity… are the skinheads white supremacists rooting for the Israelis or Hamas? Usually they don’t like brown people, but they also don’t like Jewish people.

      • marty_relaxes@discuss.tchncs.de
        51·
        2 years ago

        I realize this isn’t your point but I feel the need to point out that skinheads are not nazis - it is unfortunately a very well working project of cultural appropriation by the racists.

        In the scene racist skinheads are mostly referred to as boneheads, a term which I think makes much more sense.

      • Brutticus@lemm.ee
        51·
        2 years ago

        In general, they have different things they perceive and admire about the two. Please know, I’ll be using some of their words. In Hamas, they see people battling “Degeneracy” and “Jewish Influence.” There is an admiration for Israel, as an theocratic apartheid ethnostate. Seriously, at protests, Ive seen them carry Israeli flags before. Mostly, though its a party. “The subhumans” are fighting, one will be destroyed and one will look bad in the eyes of the international community.

      • cricket97@lemmy.world
        24·
        2 years ago

        Definitely the muslims. Believe it or not the far right doesn’t hate muslims, just don’t want to be around them. They think American involvement in the muslim world was a result of American military being used for Jewish interests. But they consider Israel to be the leading force in global destabilization. So 100% they are rooting for Palestine.

    • Im14abeer@midwest.socialEnglish
      63·
      2 years ago

      Ordinarily I’d agree with you, but Occam’s razor doesn’t. Metro Detroit is home to the largest Arabic community in the country. I believe Jewish/Arab relations are pretty sound there, but given the current circumstances…

    • mrpants@midwest.socialEnglish
      42·
      2 years ago

      Far right arab supremacists also exist. Impossible to rule them out especially given the timing and circumstances.

      • vivadanang@lemm.eeEnglish
        192·
        2 years ago

        place your bets place your bets will it be a nazi, a klansman, a jihadist, death by cop (never discount the possibility) or just some other random murderer? AAAAAMERRRRRICA THE LAND OF FREEDOM AND LIBERTY

        • superguy@lemm.ee
          101·
          2 years ago

          Forgetting the biggest cause of murders for women in the US: it was someone they knew, probably a lover.

          • Boddhisatva@lemmy.world
            3·
            2 years ago

            Police discovered multiple stab wounds on Woll’s body and found a trail of blood leading to her house, where they believe the crime occurred.

            A distinct possibility since she was stabbed at home.

        • ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com
          212·
          2 years ago

          Right? Stabbings are a strictly American phenomenon, as is racially or religiously motivated violence and just violence in general. Don’t see any of those happening anywhere else in the entire world, people in other countries have pillowfights at most. America wake up, everywhere else is a utopia while you slide into a dystopia.

            • ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com
              12·
              2 years ago

              I see you’ve never played expanded rock paper scissors. Grenade beats gun beats knife, so Sweden still beats America but at least America (and CZ) beats the rest of europe.

    • CrapConnoisseur@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz
      42·
      2 years ago

      And the current geopolitical climate could give the far right cover for committing antisemitic crimes. Particularity for crimes less serious (and therefore less well investigated) than murder, they can commit hate crimes and blame it on the Arabs.

    • TheFrirish@jlai.lu
      14·
      2 years ago

      I know we’re speculating here but imo given what’s going on between Palestine and Israel I would be inclined to believe the latter rather than the former.

    • cricket97@lemmy.world
      311·
      2 years ago

      what a bunch of cope lol. there are orders of magnitude more jew hating muslims than “white supremacists” in the usa.

      • funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works
        62·
        2 years ago

        the DHS would disagree with you, seeing as they named White Nationalist groups the biggest terrorist threat to the USA in 2020

        • cricket97@lemmy.world
          32·
          2 years ago

          I’m sure there are no political motives that influenced that.

          Also that was 3 years ago. In the current climate I’m not sure I would be so sure. You have muslims ripping down posters of dead israelis all over the united states.