Samuel Stone, 21, will face a murder charge in the February death of Zainab Mansoor. “If he walks away, still, I lost my daughter,” Mansoor’s father, Mansoor Naseem, said after a preliminary hearing Tuesday. “If he gets a full sentence, I still lost my daughter. She meant everything to me.”
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Coverage of the murder at Seabright State Beach on Feb. 23, 2024.
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Remembering Zainab Mansoor
Tae Yun Kang, a first-year literature and linguistics student at UC Santa Cruz, remembers fellow student Zainab Mansoor, 21, as kind, compassionate and someone uniquely able to make strangers feel welcome. Mansoor died in February and police have arrested her boyfriend, a former UCSC student, on charges of homicide. Here, Tae Yun writes about meeting Zainab, why she misses her and looks for people like her in all her classes.
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Authorities identify UCSC student killed at Seabright Beach
The Santa Cruz County Sheriff’s Office identified the UC Santa Cruz student killed at Seabright State Beach late last week as Zainab Mansoor, 21, of San Ramon.
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20-year-old man charged in murder of UCSC student at Seabright Beach
Samuel Stone, a 20-year-old former UC Santa Cruz student, was booked into the Santa Cruz County Jail following his arrest early Friday morning. The victim, a 21-year-old Santa Cruz woman, died at Dominican Hospital.