A student died in a shootout with two female robbery suspects who lived off the grid with a 5-year-old boy in theAlabama woods. Did. Confronted corresponding law enforcement with a loaded shotgun.
Adam Simjee, 22, took a road trip Sunday morning in his Talladega National Forest near his Cheaha State Park in eastern Alabama with his 20-year-old girlfriend Mikayla Paulus. After leaving, he was shot dead.
The young couple from Florida were enjoying a vacation together before making plans to go to the University of Central Florida together next week when Yasmine Haider flagged down their car. I was driving on Route 600-3. , according to the Clay County Sheriff's Office.
Hider is said to have sought his help after claiming his car broke down.
But when an unsuspecting couple came to their aid, Hider took out a gun and ordered him into the woods, officials said.
Ms. Paulus told ABC3340 in terrifying detail how the attackers ordered her boyfriend of four years to drop his cell phone in the woods and give him his bank password.
As they were held at gunpoint, officials said Mr Simsey retrieved a concealed handgun and a shootout broke out between him and the suspected robber.
The 22-year-old student received one fatal shot in his head with a gun, and Mr. Haider was also shot multiple times, including in his torso.
Ms. Paulus desperately tried to help her longtime boyfriend by wrapping a tourniquet around her gunshot wound, but she was caught by another woman, Crystal Pinkins, lurking in the woods. She told police she was caught watching the chaos unfold.
Heider and Pinkins spoke briefly to each other, although investigators say they may have been part of a violent armed group living in the woods, police said. .
Ms. Pinkins then apparently fled the scene instead of helping her accomplice and the dying Mr. Simsey.
Ms. Paulus managed to find a mobile phone in the woods and she called 911 for help.
Adam Simjee and Mikayla Paulus were traveling together in a car when the shooting occurred
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For the next 30 minutes, she was left stranded in the woods with Mr. Simsey's alleged killer while waiting for emergency services to arrive.
"The girl asked if she could escape because she had a child and needed food. , she told Mr. Paulus ABC3340
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Officers arrived on the scene and found Ms. Paulus attempting CPR on her unresponsive boyfriend. He was confirmed dead at the scene.
Ms. Hyder was found lying on the ground nearby and she was airlifted to a hospital in Birmingham, where she underwent surgery for her injuries.
In a bizarre twist to the tragedy, investigators soon discovered that a group of "armed and potentially violent" people were sometimes "living off the grid." I got the information. An attack has been made.
Multiple law enforcement agencies searched for the gang, and hours later he approached an 800m encampment just from the deadly shooting where the two suspects were believed to have lived. did.
As officers approached the tent, she spotted a woman (later identified as Ms. Pinkins) standing nearby.
The officer told the child to put down the shotgun, but the boy complied and continued running to his mother before putting his gun on the ground.
Crystal Pinkins in reservation photo
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Ms Pinkins was arrested and charged with murder, kidnapping, robbery and endangering a child. She is being held at the Clay County Detention Center.
Her young son is in Human Resources custody.
Ms Haider also faces murder, kidnapping and robbery charges upon her discharge.
According to police, no one appeared to be living in the camp at the time, and the camp is now being demolished by the National Forest Authority.
Ms. Paulus praised her boyfriend as the hero who saved her life, saying he died trying to protect her. "He was like an angel. Everyone who met him loved him. He was always joking and being a jerk," she said. Exactly."
The GoFundMe to help with the funeral costs of the victims' families has raised more than $7,000.
