A University of Wisconsin-Stout student from Saudi Arabia died one day after being assaulted on a street in downtown Menomonie, Wis., about 70 miles east of Minneapolis, according to reports.
Hussain Saeed Al-Nahdi was reportedly assaulted by a suspect whom police described as a white male about six feet tall. He died a day later from his injuries in the hospital.
Al-Nahdi was from Buraidah, Saudi Arabia and was studying business administration. He came to the university in 2015. He was 24.
“Our deepest sympathies, thoughts and prayers go out to Hussain’s family in Buraidah and his friends at UW-Stout,” said University of Wisconsin-Stout Chancellor Bob Meyer, according to Arab News. An outpouring of grief from both teachers and students who described Al-Nahdi “as a hard-working, serious student who was a kind person and a man of good character.”
Al-Nahdi’s death is the latest tragedy to strike the Saudi student community in the United States.
In September, Saudi student Abdul Rahman Al-Amer, a mechanical engineering sophomore at the University of Maine, died from injuries sustained in a motorcycle accident in Acadia National Park.
In September 2014, a Saudi student was murdered in the Los Angeles area after a Craigslist exchange gone wrong. Roughly one month later, Saudi scholarship student Marwan Hinnawi was charged for murdering another Saudi scholarship student, Mohamed Badi.
