A Jamestown woman was brutally murdered Monday while working as a social worker at a homeless shelter in Brattleboro, VT.
Leah Rosin-Pritchard, 36, a graduate of North Kingstown High, Rhode Island College and a former Middletown High School volleyball coach, was found dead on the kitchen floor of the Morningside House homeless shelter around 9:30 a.m after a brutal axe attack by resident Zaaina Mahvish-Jammeh., 38, of Brattleboro.
Brattleboro Police said they responded to a report that a person was being attacked with an axe. Upon arrival, officers found shelter coordinator Rosin-Pritchard suffering from injuries to the face, neck and torso. She was pronounced dead at the scene.
Police discovered the assailant, Zaaina Asra Zakirrah Mahvish-Jammeh, 38, of Brattleboro. in the nearby living room, “wiping blood off of her hands with a paper towel,” according to the affidavit
Mahvish-Jammeh was arrested, arraigned, and ordered held without bail on the charge of 1st degree murder where a judge also ordered a mental health evaluation.
“She is a danger to others and potentially to herself,” Judge Katherine Hayes said of Mahvish-Jammeh.
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