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IBF PRESIDENT’S TWO GRANDCHILDREN KILLED IN VIOLENT INCIDENTS By Ronnie Nathanielsz PhilBoxing.com Fri, 25 Jan 2008  Marian Muhammad. IBF president Marian Muhammad’s two grandchildren – a 20 year old boy and an 18 year old girl – have been killed in violent incidents in New York and Allentown, Pennsylvania. The IBF president who was at the office attending to the request of Games and Amusements Board chairman Eric Buhain for a medical extension for the injured IBF minimum weight champion Florante Condes told Viva Sports/Manila Standard Today that her two grandchildren were killed over the weekend and she and the family members were “busy making funeral arrangements and trying to console each other.” In a touching appeal the IBF president said “if you have any faith at all, please keep us in your prayers. Pray that God give us the strength to bear this cross. I know He is beneficent and He is merciful and we are depending on Him, the all wise and knowing God to bring us through this.” Chairman Buhain was shocked by the news and extended his and the Philippine boxing community's and the country's condolences to the IBF president. Ms. Muhammad said her grandson Samir “Smooch” Wilkins was killed when ”someone decided to go on a stabbing rampage after some differences at a coat check-in in a club” which police reported took place – according to The Sun newspaper - on Broadway near 48th street at about 3:45 a.m. after a fight broke out between a group of partygoers inside Spotlight Live, a nearby restaurant and karaoke nightclub. Six people were stabbed but only Wilkins died. The IBF president disclosed that her granddaughter Ashley Heath was “shot five times at a party. Supposedly she went out on the porch to speak on her phone when someone shot her in the back. She said it was a party with 40-50 people and no one knows anything. “ Family members of Heath who graduated last year from Easton High School where she played basketball as a freshman said friends saw her trying to break up an argument between two men earlier. They were told later that one of the men had shot her while she was on her cellphone. Click here to view a list of other articles written by Ronnie Nathanielsz.  |
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