Mariah Samuels did all she could to stop abusive ex. Family says police failed to act

In the final minutes of her life, Mariah Samuels asked a Minneapolis police officer to protect her from an abusive ex-boyfriend. When the officer left, she wrote a damning Facebook post about the lack of response.

Moments later, she was dead, shot 10 times on the stoop of a home on Russell Avenue.

Police arrested the former boyfriend, David Eugene Write, and he now sits in a jail cell awaiting trial on a second-degree murder charge…

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