LIVERMORE — Her identify was Sara Abdelhadi and the final six months of her life have been a residing hell.
There have been threats, nonconsensual posts of intimate visuals to social media, incidents of harassment on the Harmony mall the place she labored, and eventually, a kidnapping that resulted within the 23-year-old Nice Hill lady leaping from a automotive because it raced down Interstate 580 in Livermore, in line with police.
It was a determined, closing try to flee a person who appeared obsessed together with her. After she hit the pavement, Abdelhadi was fatally struck by a number of automobiles as her alleged kidnapper continued down the freeway and out of sight, authorities stated.
Abdelhadi’s abductor has been recognized as 23-year-old Mohammed Yousef Omar, a Hayward resident, and authorities don’t know his whereabouts. However on Sept. 23 — almost a 12 months to the day after Abdelhadi’s demise — Alameda County prosecutors charged Omar with felony counts of homicide, involuntary manslaughter, kidnapping, vehicular manslaughter with gross negligence leaving the scene of an accident and a misdemeanor cost of damaging the cellphone of a witness.
Omar referred to as 911 after Abdelhadi jumped from the automotive, however not till after he drove 13 miles from the location to a member of the family’s dwelling in Tracy. He described Abdelhadi’s demise as a suicide led to by a cherished one’s meanness. The California Freeway Patrol says that after an in depth investigation, an excellent darker image emerged of torment, stalking habits, and home violence.
The 2 had begun courting roughly six months earlier, a relationship Omar would later inform police was stricken by mutual infidelity and arguments. Relations advised investigators that Omar had frequently threatened to injure and even kill her and would continually harass her with telephone calls, textual content and Instagram messages anytime she stopped speaking to him and tried to distance herself, in line with court docket data.
“We’re gonna get back to the old us. I promise. (One) more chance mama,” Omar allegedly texted Abdelhadi in a single string of messages obtained by police. When she didn’t reply, the Omar’s messages bought more and more aggressive and recommended violence.
A closing message was a direct menace, in line with police: “I’m (expletive) shaking bra. I’m (expletive) kill you (expletive). Watch.”
On the night time of Sept. 21, 2024, after one other day of harassment, Omar allegedly confronted Abdelhadi close to her Nice Hill residence. Earlier within the day, he’d stopped Macy’s on the Sunvalley Mall in Harmony, the place she labored, and “made a scene” in entrance of staff there, demanding to know the place she was, in line with police.
She referred to as him to say that after she bought off work about 6:30 she would go dwelling and alter and return to her work website to satisfy him. After she returned, he adopted her to Morello Drive, a few mile from her dwelling, the place he blocked her automotive, court docket paperwork allege.
As soon as face-to-face together with her, Omar allegedly smashed her telephone by spiking it into the roadway, and ran for his 2018 black Audi sedan.
When Abdelhadi bent down to choose up her damaged telephone, Omar allegedly smashed the gasoline pedal and accelerated towards her. He missed Abdelhadi, slammed on the brakes, exited the automotive, and yelled at Abdelhadi to get inside, police say. She did.
However just a few yards away, perched on an house balcony, stood a neighbor with their cellphone digital camera out. Involved concerning the noise, the eyewitness had recorded the whole incident and would later present investigators the video, in line with police.
Omar and Abdelhadi drove round for greater than an hour, finally ending up in Livermore. It was there, on the freeway, that Abdelhadi jumped from the automotive round 8 p.m., simply east of North First Road exit. Omar continued to Tracy, then dialed 911 and later agreed to a police interview, in line with court docket data.
Omar didn’t cease his car after Abdelhadi jumped and made no try to help or verify on her, court docket paperwork say. As an alternative of calling 911 instantly, he referred to as his mom first, speaking to her for nearly 5 minutes earlier than lastly dialing 911, authorities allege.
In his assertion to investigators, Omar claimed that Abdelhadi had been excessive on cocaine and that she “lost the will to live” and jumped from the transferring automotive when certainly one of her members of the family referred to as her and made merciless remarks over the telephone. When police requested to look at his telephone, he claimed he’d deleted communications that he didn’t need her to see, authorities stated in court docket filings.
Authorities have been capable of acquire a number of the communications and different incriminating posts, together with a sexually specific video of the 2 that Omar allegedly posted to Instagram. He additionally threatened to show her household’s “secrets” as a type of management, police alleged in court docket data. She started carrying two telephones out of concern Omar would harm one, her members of the family advised police.
Her members of the family advised police they seen bruises and different seen accidents on Abdelhadi all through the connection, and that she advised her sister-in-law she was in an abusive relationship. In a police interview final 12 months, Omar claimed Abdelhadi had advised him a member of the family threw a distant at her face, inflicting a bruise, in line with court docket data.
