
Eunice Dwumfour was doing well.
The 30-year-old had just won an upset election victory over an incumbent city councilman in Sayreville, New Jersey. She was a mother to a 12-year-old daughter, active in her church, and she had just married a Nigerian pastor. Perhaps, on the night of 1 February, as she sat in her white SUV outside her home, she was thinking about their planned visit in May.