DC attacker was a single mom with ?every reason to live?
By Jennifer Bain
October 3, 2013 | 8:19pm
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Friends and former Brooklyn neighbors recalled Miriam Carey as a hardworking single mother who had every reason to live.
?She had everything going for her,? said Yolanda Napoleon, 40. ?A beautiful baby, a man helping her with her baby, a job making 100k per year. Her child was her everything.?
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Miriam Carey
Carey, 34, was a dental hygienist who was licensed in both New York and Connecticut. She lived in Brooklyn as recently as 2005 and had a condo in Stamford, Conn.
Friends, who grew up with her and her four sisters on Stanley Avenue in Brooklyn, were mystified about how Carey?s life came to end in a fiery confrontation with several police and Secret Service agents in the shadow of the US Capitol on Thursday. They said Carey had never been in trouble before and had been working at her current job for five years
Tazzy Wright, another friend and former neighbor of Carey?s, said they had just gone on a vacation together.
?We all just went on a cruise together to the Bahamas. Her job took her. That?s how good a worker she was,? Wright, 30, said. ?She seemed perfectly fine. There was nothing wrong with Miriam.?
?We used to go to school together. I?ve known her her whole life,? said another friend, Donald Knowles, 33. He said he had seen Carey on Wednesday in the Stanley Avenue apartment she grew up in. ?She?s a sweetheart,? he said.
But one neighbor said, ?It was clear there was mental health issues in the family.?
Napoleon said she was best friends with Carey?s older sister Amy. She suspected that the fatal confrontation in Washington was some sort of tragic misunderstanding.
?They are going to find there was nothing in the car. Maybe this is a freak accident. Maybe her brakes went out,? she said.