Homicide Victim on East Side Just Earned Her Master’s Degree
Tuesday, August 03, 2021
Providence Police have identified the victim of this weekend’s homicide in the city.
Police confirmed Monday that 24-year-old Warwick native Miya Brophy-Baermann was shot and killed early Sunday morning on Olney Street on the East Side of Providence.
According to Brophy-Baermann’s LinkedIn page, she recently received her Master’s Degree in Speech and Language Pathology — with a 3.94 GPA— from Northeastern University. She received her undergraduate degree from URI in 2019.
GET THE LATEST BREAKING NEWS HERE -- SIGN UP FOR GOLOCAL FREE DAILY EBLASTBrophy-Baermann had recently held a number of internships and fellowships prior to graduating, including working as a student clinician at Northeastern, East Taunton Elementary School, as well as at Encompass Rehabilitation Hospital in Braintree and at Reliant Rehabilitation in North Providence.
Her mother is a professor at Rhode Island College.
Suspects Being Sought
Police say Brophy-Baermann, who had just celebrated her 24th birthday, was speaking with a friend at around 3:30 AM on Olney Street Sunday morning when a car came by at a high rate of speed — and fired shots and struck her.
She was taken to RIH where she was pronounced deceased.
Police believe Brophy-Baermann was not known to assailants and was leaving an after-party when she was shot.
“It’s horrible,” said Providence Police Major David Lapatin. “To be such a coward to shoot a gun out of a car like that..it’s incredible. We feel for the victim, like we do every victim here.”
Providence police are currently investigating.
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