www.king5.com Video Player*This is not from me originally, however I do think it's important.*
To those of you who wont repost this, thats kind of sad. I know most of you didnt know her but I have seen you repost the most ridiculous bulletins like "If you dont repost this in .2 seconds you will die tonight and your crush will hate you", "What kind of skittle are you?", "Whats your favorite song to have SEX too?", "put BACARDI if your taken", "Leave me comments lyke now!" and so on. But you cant repost one that has meaning, and that isnt threatening you?
To alot of you this is just another sad bulletin or news article, but to the people who knew her she was their daughter, best friend, niece, cousin, crush, grandaughter, sister, prom date. Think of how they feel? and how you would feel if this happened to someone close to you.
R.I.P. Anna E. Svidersky, 17
Anna was a smart 17 year old girl who lived in Vancover, WASHINGTON. She attended Fort Vancover Highschool and was going to graduating this June,2006. Thursday, April 20th 2006 in the evening she was stabbed and murdered at Mcdonalds while working. She didnt deserve this, at all. There is so much violence going on lately its ridiculous.
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Stabbing of Vancouver teen hits community hard.02:35 PM PDT on Friday, April 21, 2006
By TERESA BELL and KRISTINA BRENNEMAN, kgw.com Staff
*VANCOUVER -- The deadly stabbing of a 17-year-old girl who made everyone smile is tearing the Vancouver community apart, said the Vancouver police chief Friday.
Anna Svidersky, a Fort Vancouver High School senior, was stabbed in the chest by a stranger while working at McDonald's Thursday night, said Police Chief Brian Martinek at a news conference.
"It's tearing us apart, quite frankly," he said. "There's no magic wall around Vancouver. We've had two young girls killed in the last six months," referring to the November 2005 murder of 14-year-old Chelsea Harrison.
Svidersky, who would have graduated in June, was taken to Legacy Emanuel Hospital in Portland where she died around 9 p.m. Thursday. An autopsy was scheduled for Friday morning, Martinek said.
The suspect, David Barton Sullivan, was charged with first-degree murder Friday morning.
**Police collect evidence at the crime scene.
"We preliminarily determined he had an intent to kill," Martinek said. "The suspect armed with a knife walked into one of the doors of McDonalds.... found the victim at a table and stabbed the victim. There's not a whole lot of question about what happened and who did it."
Many employees in the McDonalds saw what happened, he said.
The owner of the Vancouver McDonald's, Matt Hadwin, issued a statement saying, "We are shocked and saddened by this random act of violence against one of our employees. Our thoughts and prayers go out to her family and friends during this difficult time. We are fully cooperating with the Vancouver Police as they investigate this incident."
During a court appearance Friday in Clark County Superior Court, Sullivan was shaking and twitching. The judge ordered he be held without bail.
Sullivan, a registered sex offender in Washington state, will be arraigned on the murder charge April 28. He also has a criminal history that includes kidnapping and unlawful imprisonment, according to court records.
Suspect is registered sex offender. In addition, Sullivan, who lived at home, has a history of mental illness, said Police Chief Martinek. Sullivan had pleaded guilty to unlawful imprisonment with sexual motivation in 2003 for trying to kidnap a 14-year-old girl in Vancouver. He was sent to Western State Hospital, treated for paranoid schizophrenia and found competent to stand trial. He was sentenced to 90 days in jail. "This is obviously very tragic for everyone involved," he said. The Vancouver Police Department "wants to pass on its condolences to famiy, school and community."
Nancy Faaren, principal at Fort Vancouver High School said Svidersky's death "is a very sad day for Fort Vancouver High School. Svidersky was "well-liked by students and staff alike. She will be greatly missed by students and staff."
The senior had a good sense of humor and contagious laugh, and juggled several jobs as well as full-class load, she said.
School counselors would be helping students with their grief, Faaren said.
***David Sullivan, a suspect in the stabbing of a Vancouver high school student, enters court. Shortly after the first 9-1-1 call about the stabbing at McDonald's, at 2814 N.E. Andresen St., emergency dispatchers received a report that a man was being pursued on foot and police dogs were quickly sent to the scene. Martinek said several witnesses from McDonald's had followed Sullivan from the restaurant. Officers said he was soon captured and a knife believed to be the murder weapon was found nearby as well. Police have not determined a motive in the stabbing. The McDonald's is located in an area about halfway between downtown and Orchards.
The girl's mother found out about the attack when she showed up Thursday night to drive her daughter home from work. A Russian-speaking Vancouver Police officer accompanied Svidersky's family to the hospital Thursday night.
The McDonald's restaurant was closed Thursday night after the stabbing and re-opened at 6:30 a.m. Friday. McNicholas said the staff at the fast-food chain was struggling with the loss, as were police, even though they didn't personally know the slain teen.
(KGW reporter Scott Burton also contributed to this article.)
Her best friend, Christina, wrote this:
"Saturday, April 22, 2006
you don't love her like i love her
april 19: anna called me and told me to meet her at the mall at 2:45. i was on time. she was a half hour late. she smiled and told me to shut up and then went and got some panda express. we did the usual, went to foot locker, hung with the gang, we even went and got her birthday gift from me. it was a hat from lids. then decided to go see a movie. we walked up there and figured we couldn't see anything without ID's, so we just sat on the movie steps. we sat and talked for about an hour and a half. about nothing. everything. just taking each other in. then we decided to go see david. we went to winco first and bought chips and candy and water. and she bought me a peice of pizza. we went to the bus stop and ate, and talked and waited. we got downtown and ran into chris and jason and brandon. we hung out, me and anna played with their skateboards. they came with us to david's. we had fun. she made me laugh so fucking hard. her ice age impression. oh my god. when it got late, we watched hostel. she hated it. then we smoked. and she laughed at everything i said. it made me feel so good. and she ate. oh god did she eat. everything in sight. she layed her head on my leg. i loved her so much.
april 20: i wake up. anna's right next to me. she told me to call jon. we need a ride home. he gets there, i wake her up, and tell her we have to walk to dairy queen. she tells me it's too far. it's right across the street. she's so fucking cute. we drive her home, the last thing she said was thank you jon. i go home, fall asleep, and wake up to her phone call at four. we discuss prom, and boys. she tells me she'll see me later. she won't.
later that night i'm talking to keith online. he asks about anna, but then the topic drops. then he tells me to call danielle immediately. i do. she tells me to turn on the news. she's upset, something about anna. i think she's kidding at first. i turn to the news. it's already eleven at night. they're saying a girl has been stabbed to death, they won't say who it is. what the fuck? i call anna's phone. no answer, i call her house, no answer. i call her over and over and over again. no fucking answer. i scream at her to pick up her phone. please, just tell me you're ok. just be ok please. no answer. we drive to mcdonalds. i beg them to tell me it's not anna. the police just send me away. i don't know what to do. victoria calls. she's crying. it can't be anna. i know it can't be. she gives me karen's number, and karen tells me.
and that's how my life became meaningless. my best friend in the fucking world got stabbed to death in a mcdonalds lobby by some disgusting pedofile asshole. she can't be gone. she can't be. she'll be calling me any minute to tell me she's alright.
she's fucking gone. i'll never see the most amazing person i ever met again. i'll never touch her. hear her. laugh with her ever again. i want to laugh with her. i want to hold her. i wish i could've been there. to hold her. tell her it would be alright. that she needs to pull through. because i fucking need her. i can't have a future without her. she's the only person who knows who i am. that knows every horrible thing i've done. that's sat with me through every crying session, that trusted me with everything. she told me everything, and i need her now. i need to tell her so many things. i need to hold her. feel her love. it feels unreal. and the pain is so fucking bad. i'm hurting so fucking bad. i just want her back. please."
