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WPU Student Left Paralyzed Months After Boyfriend's Jersey City Attempted Murder-Suicide WPU Student Left Paralyzed Months After Boyfriend's Jersey City Attempted Murder-Suicide
WPU Student Left Paralyzed Months After Boyfriend's Jersey City Attempted Murder-Suicide Support is surging for a 23-year-old William Paterson University student who remains on a ventilator and paralyzed from the shoulders down after being shot six times by her boyfriend who then shot and killed himself. More than $15,300 had been raised for Samantha Irizarry as of March 19, nearly five months after the incident that changed her life forever. Irizarry was a Dean's List student in her final year at WPU, completing her BA in business in finance, at the time of the incident, campaign founder Idalia Beteta writes. "Prior to the incident, she was determined to break barriers a…

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by Cecilia Levine