Wisconsin police are searching for witnesses who may have seen the brutal murder of a Saudi student found bloodied and beaten outside a pizza parlor early Sunday.
Hussain Saeed Alnahdi, a 24-year-old foreign student who attended the University of Wisconsin-Stout died on Monday after an attack outside of Toppers Pizza, a restaurant in downtown Menomonie, Wis.
Police said his assailant is a white male who is roughly 6 feet tall, according to the Wisconsin Journal-Sentinel.
Investigators hope that eye witness accounts of the attack that left Alnahdi dead can help them identify the suspect.
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“I would assume a decent amount of people saw it,” Alex Van Keulen, a senior at the college, told NBC News. “It was Halloween. It’s definitely something that’s been buzzed and talked about on campus.”
Hussain Saeed Alnahdi was brutally beaten and left bloodied near a pizza parlor in Wisconsin.
(Facebook/University of Wisconsin)Investigators are treating Alnahdi’s death as a homicide but have not determined whether it is a hate crime pending a determination of motive, the Menomonie Police Department said in a statement.
Alnahdi was originally from Buraydah, Saudi Arabia and was studying business administration at the University of Wisonsin branch campus, those who knew him told the Journal-Sentinel.
Linda Bark, who taught the slain student English as a second language, praised Alnahdi, saying he was “very popular, very well-liked.”
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“He was eager to learn, an avid student,” Bark told the Journal-Sentinel. “He wanted to be an actuary. He had goals.”
The Saudi student died after he was seriously injured in the attack.
(Facebook)The University of Wisconsin-Stout Chancellor Bob Meyer urged anyone who witnessed the fatal attack to come forward.
“I want to make a personal appeal to anyone on campus or in the community who might have information that would help authorities locate the individual involved in the attack to come forward,” Meyer said in a statement.
“Our deepest sympathies, thoughts and prayers go out to Hussain’s family in Buraydah, Saudi Arabia, and his friends at UW-Stout,” he said.
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