The Western Journal
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Nothing can bring Adam Simjee back from the “dystopian nightmare” that ended his life. However, those who mourn him can take some solace in the fact some measure of justice was meted out to his killers.
According to Law & Crime, 22-year-old Simjee was killed in 2022 after he and his girlfriend, Mikayla Paulus, pulled over to the side of the road to help a woman that said her car had broken down. After she led the couple into the forest and pulled a gun on them, Simjee fought back with a gun of his own — and while he wounded the robber with four shots, he was killed by her.
However, on Thursday, 37-year-old Krystal Diane Pinkins — the mastermind of the robbery — received life in prison, while her accomplice, 21-year-old Yasmine Marie Adel Hider, received 35 years.
The incident happened on Aug. 14, 2022 in Alabama’s Talladega National Forest. Simjee and Paulus were “traveling and sleeping in Victim #1’s 2010 white Chevrolet Uplander van [and] looking for waterfalls in Cheaha State Park, when HIDER flagged the couple down and said she needed help with her broken down vehicle, a blue XB Scion, which was located about an eighth of a mile away,” according to court documents.
The two, who “were simply being Good Samaritans,” stopped and agreed to help. As Simjee attempted to jump-start the vehicle, however, Hider pulled her weapon and told the two to “empty their pockets and to walk further into the woods.”
When Simjee pulled the gun on Hider, the armed robber responded by saying, “Are you serious?”
“She cocked her gun and started firing, and Victim # 1 returned fire simultaneously while falling to the ground,” court documents allege. “While on the ground, Victim #1 said, ‘You shot me,’ and fired one last time at HIDER. After the shooting stopped, HIDER said, ‘Why did you shoot? It wasn’t supposed to be like this.’”
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