Aviva okeson haberman12/24/2023 ![]() "She was an especially beloved friend and colleague just beginning what promised to be a brilliant career," the station said. The station described her as "sweet, kind and gracious," and her reporting as "thoughtful, aggressive and compassionate." This was intentional, and an innocent young woman, a budding journalistic star, is gone forever.Okeson-Haberman joined KCUR in June 2019 after graduating from the Missouri School of Journalism at the University of Missouri. The woman, Saundra Napper, said: “I don’t think it was stray.” The cone, she said, was in a position that would have given shooter a clear shot into the apartment. A woman who was standing in the stairwell of the building behind Haberman’s told me that when police were scouring the scene the day Haberman was found, a cone was placed in the alley, as if to indicate the presence of a shell casing. If that is the case, it would tend to indicate the shooter was standing at an angle, rather than shooting straight ahead. It appeared to me that the hole in the screen (hard to see here) was slightly to the right of the hole in the glass. Now, here is the bullet hole…You can see it at lower left, in the reflection of a nearby building. It would be much harder to get a clear view from the sidewalk. A person standing on the rocky patch would have a relatively clear view into the window. ![]() You can’t tell it from the photo, but between the rocky ground and the sidewalk is a downward incline of a couple of feet. The window is about six feet from the ground-level sidewalk. The bullet that struck Haberman pierced the far-left window a few inches from the bottom. Here’s a closer look at Haberman’s bedroom windows. The alley (keep the alley in mind) runs between Haberman’s building and another apartment building (left), which faces Benton. Sadi Sumpter lives across the hall, in the first-floor apartment on the east side. Haberman lived in the first-floor apartment on this, the west side, Her bedroom was at the back of the building, between the two dark, parked cars. You’re looking at the west side of the building on Lockridge, which runs east-west. The apartment Haberman lived in was on the west side of a three-story, red-brick building with six large, two-bedroom apartments - three on each side of the building, each unit extending from the front of the building to the back. Regardless, I want to show you what I turned up in my visit to the apartment building yesterday. To me, Sumpter’s story sounds credible, but who knows? The Post, owned by Rupert Murdoch, has a reputation for sensationalism, with fleeting attention to accuracy. The police department has only said “the round that struck her was fired from outside her apartment into her apartment.”ĭan Margolies, the KCUR reporter who wrote the station’s initial story about Haberman’s death, told me today he had not read the Post story and didn’t intend to. The woman, 26-year-old Sadi Sumpter, told the Post she believes the shooting could have been a botched hit meant for her and arranged by her ex-boyfriend, whom she described as a drug addict and a convicted felon.Ī KCPD spokesman declined comment on Sumpter or her allegations. Yesterday, the New York Post published a story quoting a woman who lives in an apartment adjacent to Haberman’s as saying she believed the bullet was intended for her. The bullet may or may not have been intended for Haberman, but it was almost certainly fired with intent to kill. I came away convinced that this was an intentional shooting. Yesterday morning, I went over to 29th and Lockridge, near 27th and Benton, and did some reporting. She was found in that position the afternoon of Friday, April 23, having been shot the night before. I’ve since learned that Haberman, 24, was lying in bed reading. ![]() Plus, it was nighttime, and the bedroom light was almost certainly on. ![]() ![]() Think about it: One bullet traveling straight through a first-floor, bedroom window and striking a woman who was either sitting, standing or lying inside, close to the window. A stray bullet would had to have been spectacularly stray. The more I thought about it, the more I realized how unlikely that was. When I heard about the shocking shooting of KCUR reporter Aviva Okeson-Haberman, I initially accepted as plausible the theory espoused by many news outlets, including CBS News, that she was the victim of a “stray bullet.” ![]()
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