Ruth Munene who was found with three stab wounds in her apartment
Birmingham – “She just was a kind-hearted person.”
This woman, who asked ABC 33/40 not to identify her, is talking about her life-long frined, Ruth Munene, who was found dead in her apartment late Friday night.
Birmingham Police have not yet officially released the name of the deceased.
But according to friends and family, the deceased inside the 240 21st Avenue South apartment, was Munene. “I was thinking she was in a car wreck,” her friend said. “That was my first reaction.” She recalls the night as a constant game of phone tag. Friends calling saying Munene was unconscious, but no one knew whether she was alive or dead. Then the friend says she received a heartbreaking phone call around 3 a.m. Saturday. “I could tell she was crying on the other end of the phone and she said ‘Do you know what has happened?’ I said I was told she was unconscious, do you know anything else? She said believe it or not she has left us,” Munene’s friend said. According to family, Munene was murdered…stabbed three times. Outside the apartment, crime scene tape hangs from a handrail and a piece of window glass is broken just beside the front door. But right now, that is all the facts they know. Munene’s friend says she’s devastated and doesn’t understand why anyone would kill her friend. “I was really, really shocked to hear she had passed away,” she said.
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