Friends and family are mourning a woman who was shot and killed during a rampage attack in West Philadelphia late Friday night.
Sara Salih, 27, was sitting in a car with her boyfriend on Sansom Street when a gunman, later identified as Nicholas Glenn, approached their vehicle and opened fire. Salih was struck several times in the chest while her boyfriend was struck in the arm and chest. They were both taken to Penn-Presbyterian Hospital where Salih succumbed to her injuries. Her boyfriend remains in critical condition.
Before opening fire on Salih and her boyfriend, Glenn had already shot Philadelphia Police sergeant Sylvia Young in an ambush attack as well as a man and woman working at the Maximum Level Lounge on 5118 Sansom Street, investigators said. After shooting Salih and her boyfriend, Glenn continued his rampage attack and shot University of Pennsylvania Police officer Edward Miller. Glenn was then shot several times by responding police officers and later died from his injuries.
Salih is the only victim from Friday’s shooting who died from her injuries. Police are still unsure of Glenn’s motive though they found a raving, barely coherent note in his possession that was addressed to “doomed people.” Police described the note, written in the first person, as a “bunch of ramblings” in which Glenn expressed anger towards his parole officer as well as police.
Police believe Salih and the other civilians who were shot during the attack were random targets.
Salih’s uncle, Mohamednur Salih, told NBC10 his niece had just gotten home from a night out when the shooting took place.
“Sara was a very pretty lady and very young,” her uncle said. “Very beautiful. It’s unbelievable, the loss of life like this.”
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Salih moved to America from Saudi Arabia when she was a young girl. She was studying fashion design prior to her death.
“She was eight years old when she came in,” her uncle said. “She finished high school and then she went to community college. It’s very sad to loss this way. And you try the best you possibly could. You always try.”
