As Lulu’s previous high school teacher and now a friend and mentor, I have offered to help Lulu with the burden of the costs of her mother’s tragic death. There are so many unexpected fees, procedures,and costs when a loved one is murdered. Lulu is a college student living in another state trying to balance her own life as well as all of the added mental load, responsibilities, and costs bestowed upon her once someone decided to murder her mother. All funds will go directly to Lulu for any expenses due to travel, lawyer’s fees, shipping costs, storage costs, and hopefully a memorial service if her mother’s remains are found.

On June 11th, Lulu received a call from her Aunt asking if she had heard from her mother lately. She had not, and that started this journey.

At first, it was believed that Lulu’s mother, Rana Nofal-Soluri (also known as Rain) was simply missing. The search went out, flyers were made, police were involved, and Lulu finally had to find the time and funds to come out to Texas to help search for her missing mother. She flew out in mid-June and stayed for almost a week heading up the search for her missing mother.

Quickly, the Fort Worth Police’s Missing Person’s Department realized that this may not just be a missing person and handed the case over to homicide to help. Within days, the Fort Worth Police Department’s Homicide Division had a suspect and a confession.

The worst possible outcome was determined; Rana was no longer missing but murdered.

With this news, Lulu, Rana’s daughter, has been trying to deal with this shocking news along with dealing with the next steps that come along with this devastating outcome. She flew back to Texas the week of August 25th to sort through her mother’s storage unit. She also gained access to the house that her mother was allegedly murdered in to collect any further belongings of her mother’s. After a week of staying in a hotel, she went back to Washington to start her final semester in college.

Because of this, Lulu has already endured a tremendous financial burden with hotel stays, airplane tickets, shipping and storage of sentimental items, and food while traveling. She is also looking at the requirement to hire a probate attorney to be able to finalize her mother’s estate. Because no body has yet been found and identified, she must have a probate attorney to be able to get a death certificate, which would then allow her access to close any accounts in her mother’s name.

We are asking for these funds to support Lulu in the next year or so as she navigates travelling back to Texas as needed to close out her mother’s accounts and for any future court case. Additionally, a probate attorney can cost anywhere on average from $3,000 to $7,000, but possibly more due to the extenuating circumstances. Plus, she will need to retain one in Texas while she is not living here. Any donation helps Lulu not have to worry about these unexpected expenses from her mother’s untimely and tragic death.

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