JEFFERSON CITY, Tenn. — An international student at Carson- Newman College died Aug. 23 from injuries she received in an attack. On Aug. 13, Du-Jae (D.J.) Lee was in Senegal, the African nation where her parents serve as independent Presbyterian missionaries. She was helping a friend hail a cab on a nearly deserted street when a man grabbed her from the rear seat of a passing Mercedes sedan. She was dragged down the street until the attackers decided just to steal her purse. As she was pushed away from the vehicle, she hit her head on the pavement and suffered massive trauma. She underwent surgery Aug. 15 but later died from her injuries.
As a multilingual “missionary kid,” Lee was gifted at making friends and crossing cultural boundaries. She was born in Bonn, Germany, had South Korean citizenship, listed Dakar, Senegal, as her home address, and came to school in East Tennessee.
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