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Social media influencers continued to mourn the death of Iryna Zarutska, a 23-year-old Ukrainian refugee brutally killed in Charlotte, NC., a month ago.
While Iryna’s memory deserves to be honored, the steady toll of young women losing their lives in America should not be overlooked. In just the past few weeks, many women under the age of sixty have been killed in circumstances strikingly similar to the tragedy that claimed Iryna’s life. Here are ten such cases.
The following are alleged.
1. Katelynn Strate, 17, was fatally shot.
The only solace is that Strate, though pregnant, left behind a child who survived.
A single gunshot ended her life—authorities say it stemmed from road rage and have ruled it a homicide.
Arrested was Barry West, 54.
2. Iris Feliciano-Hernandez, 30, died in a crash.
20-year-old Tremayne A. Brown of Milwaukee, was reportedly speeding at 70 mph through downtown streets—far above the posted limit—despite multiple prior citations for driving with a suspended license on March 27, March 31, and April 4, 2025.
Authorities say Brown’s reckless driving caused the tragic death of Feliciano-Hernandez, who was killed when the vehicle she was riding in was broadsided on June 7, 2025.
3. Dr. Julie Gard Schnuelle, 59, was fatally stabbed.
A retired Auburn University veterinary professor, Schnuelle, was killed on Saturday, Sept. 6, 2025, while walking her dog in a wooded section of a park in Auburn, Alabama.
Auburn police arrested Harold Rashad Dabney III, 28.
4. Nikki Marie Loffredo, 42, was fatally shot.
Loffredo was fatally shot during a morning walk in Des Moines, Iowa.
Authorities have charged 43-year-old James Bernard Johnson with first-degree murder and possession of a firearm by a felon.
Investigators say Johnson shot Loffredo in the legs, and she later died after being hospitalized. Surveillance footage shows Johnson’s vehicle pulling up beside her before at least three shots were fired. The car is then seen speeding away from the scene.
5. Rachael Hughes, 32, was fatally shot.
Hughes was fatally shot in a wooded area near the Shawnee Park boat ramp in Louisville, Kentucky, authorities said. She had been shot eight times—twice in the head and six times in the neck and torso.
Surveillance video showed her leaving an establishment on Bardstown Road with 27-year-old Michael Bullock, a man with prior criminal convictions. The two later arrived at the boat ramp in her vehicle.
6 and 7. Kristen N. Grissom, 38, and Christine Marie McAbee, 35, were found dead in Rembert, South Carolina.
29-year-old Tiamo Henry Mitchell Drakeford was arrested in connection with the deaths of Grissom and McAbee. The latter was fatally shot. Grisson’s cause of death was not determined.
A landowner found the remains in a secluded wooded clearing off a rural road.
8. Alexis Jane Harlow, 29, was fatally shot in Atlanta, Georgia.
Harlow’s decomposing body was discovered naked and riddled with gunshot wounds inside an abandoned storage unit behind a southwest Atlanta shopping plaza in August. She was 29.
Arrested was Reginald Elliot, 20.
9. Kjersten Strang, 38, was struck by a speeding motorist.
Stang was killed in Gulfport, Florida, when a speeding driver struck her electric bicycle and continued for eight blocks with her body lodged on the windshield before fleeing, authorities said.
The victim was riding her e-bike in a curb lane around 10:08 p.m. when 22-year-old Xavier Omar Rigby—allegedly traveling at high speed—struck the rear wheel of her bike, according to the Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office.
The impact threw Strang onto the vehicle’s windshield, where she remained as Rigby drove south for about eight blocks where she was dislodged and pronounced dead at the scene.
10. Amanda Liston, 41, was fatally shot.
Liston was driving in Batesville, Mississippi when her Ford truck veered off the road and struck a tree. That led police to believe it was a single-vehicle crash.
Investigations, however, revealed she had been fatally shot.
U.S. Marshals arrested Cortrell Motley, 36, on a first-degree murder warrant.
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