Samantha Woll.Photo:Isaac Agree Downtown Synagogue/Facebook
Isaac Agree Downtown Synagogue/Facebook
A suspect who was arrested in connection with the stabbing death ofDetroit Jewish community leader Samantha Wollhas been released without being charged, according to reports.
On Friday, the suspect was released without any charges, the suspect’s attorney confirmed to theDetroit Free Press,CBS DetroitandLocal 4 News.
The attorney had no further comment. She did not immediately respond to PEOPLE’s request for comment.
Woll was found stabbed to death outside her home in Detroit’s Lafayette Park neighborhood on Oct. 21,PEOPLEreported previously.
She had returned home from a wedding before her brutal slaying, Local 4 reported, citing police.
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After being stabbed inside, Woll “stumbled" out of her home and “collapsed” outside, leaving a trail of blood in her wake, Detroit Police Chief James Whitesaid in October.
Samantha Woll’s home.RAH RICE/AFP via Getty Images
RAH RICE/AFP via Getty Images
The 40-year-old lay in in the street for “quite a while” before a witness discovered her, White added.
A longtime Jewish community leader, Woll was president of the Isaac Agree Downtown Synagogue and worked as the Deputy District Director for Rep. Elissa Slotkin.
Last Wednesday, sources told Fox 2 Detroit that Detroit Police had arrested a suspect in the Kalamazoo area. (Kalamazoo is approximately 140 miles west of Detroit.)
At an Oct. 23 press conference, the chief said there was “no evidence” that Woll was the victim of an antisemitic hate crime.
The Detroit Police Department did not immediately respond to People’s request for comment.
source: people.com
