She Was Set to Testify Against her Rapist, but She Was MURDERED. THE TRAGIC CASE OF MUJEY DUMBUYA
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Today we are going to be discussing the murder of Mujay Dambuya. Mujay was only 16 years old when her life was taken from her. She was a 16 year old sophomore at Campwood High School in Grand Rapids, Michigan. She was described as energetic, full of life. She had a bigger than life personality with an adventurous spirit. She loved looking pretty, always borrowing her aunt's makeup to look her best. She especially loved shoes and fashion. She was also very organized, always offering to even clean her aunt's home because she really just enjoyed the process of cleaning and organizing. She loved dancing and music and taking dance classes. She also took classes for martial arts and archery, so she was just overall a very active young woman with a lot of interests.
She was also described as being a sweet girl who loved making those around her feel comfortable and loved. She complimented those around her frequently and those who had a chance to know her all loved her. When she was little, she originally wanted to be a nurse to help people when she grew up, but then she changed her ambitions and she decided that she wanted to be a police officer. She wanted to grow up and help fight injustices and racism when she graduated high school. In 2005, Mu Jae and her mother, as well as her three sisters, they all moved to the United States from her home country of Sierra Leone as refugees to flee the country that had just gotten through a civil war. The war had been done in 2002.
but the country was still suffering the extreme consequences of this civil war. It wasn't a safe place to live anymore, so that's why Mu Jae's family and so many other families like hers left the country for a better, safer place to live. When Mu Jae was only three years old, they ended up in a refugee camp. There, they wore used clothes and were given food rations by the United Nations, but soon after, the UN relocated them to Michigan. Mujay's family described that they were happy to get away from their home country and make a new life in the U.S. They saw it as a second chance at life. They went from walking miles and miles and fighting for their survival every day to living a more comfortable life free of fear.
Once in the U.S., the family was described as a strong, close-knit family full of strong, independent women. Moojay's father stayed back in their home country while the four women moved to the U.S. and lived near Moojay's aunt, who she was very close with. Moojae's mother would go on to say that if she ever told Moojae no, she would go a few towns over to her aunt's house who would always say yes to her. She was like her best friend. Moojae enjoyed a nice, quiet life with her family in a safe suburban neighborhood. That was until Moojay had experienced some of the worst things that a young girl can go through. Everything started when Moojay was only 15 years old. During the summer of 2017, she met 17-year-old Dequarius Bibbs, who went by DQ, on Facebook.
He was from Saginaw, which is located about two miles away from where she was living in Grand Rapids. But that summer, Moojay had been living with her aunt, Naja, and it just so happened that Dequarius was also living with a family member in a suburb only six miles away from where Moojay was living. DQ was also living with his aunt, Tiara Burnett, and his aunt's fiancé at the time, a 43-year-old man named Quinn James. Now, Moojay and DQ messaged back and forth for about three weeks before they finally went on their first date in the same month in July of 2017. For their first date, Quinn was driving the pair around to their various activities. Basically, it seemed just like an uncle driving around his nephew and his new date around to all of these different activities for the day.
At the end of the night, Quinn dropped Moojae back off at her home. However, only about 10 minutes after Moojae returned home, DQ called her again and asked her to come back outside to Quinn's car. And allegedly, once Moojae got back in the car, Quinn took her in the backseat and raped her.
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