President of a Detroit synagogue found stabbed outside her home

A member of law enforcement walks near the scene near the scene where a Detroit synagogue president, Samantha Woll, was found dead. Photograph: David Rodriguez Munoz/AP

The president of a synagogue in Detroit was found stabbed outside her home Saturday morning, according to local newspaper reports.

Samantha Woll, 40, had led the Isaac Agree Downtown synagogue since 2022. The Detroit Free Press reported that she had also worked for Congresswoman Elissa Slotkin as well as the re-election campaign of the Michigan attorney general, Dana Nessel. Slotkin and Nessel are Democrats, and the latter quickly issued a statement lamenting Woll’s killing.