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December 11, 2017
Dear Judge Young,
I am the mother of David Daoud Wright, My name is Shahidah J. Muhammad and I have tears in
my eyes writing this letter to you because I never thought in a million years that I would need to write a
letter to a Judge regarding David. I was a single mother with David and my eldest daughter Malikah and
left an extremely abusive (mentally & physically) relationship that I had with their father when David
was roughly 2 years old. During David’s life, we moved from city to city, apartment to apartment in fear
of our life. David had little to no contact with his father throughout his life. As a single parent, I tried to
instill self-respect, respect for others, integrity, morality and overall fairness, truth and owning up to
ones mistakes no matter how small: ‘A lie is a lie and the truth is the truth” was a quote that was
consistently spoken in our house.
As a small child David’s vocabulary was advanced and on his preschool assessment report stated
“David’s vocabulary is well advanced than his peers”. Growing up David was a very conscious of his size
and I would always teach him how not to move with his size as he might be deemed intimidating (he
was 6ft in the 7th grade with size 13 shoe). From a young age David would get really into whatever
interested him, and then soon move onto the next interest, For example when he was {{HOW OLD}}he
loved Dinosaurs. Before I knew he he was walking like a dinosaur – literallyreplicating their walk for a
while. I had to let people know that was what he was doing when looked at with dismay. During his
next phase, he became obsessed with the game Pokeman, and collected all the cards he could find. He
was also known to carry around his “Pokémon binder”, which looked pretty sillywalking down the street
at 6 ft. I wanted David to be confident of his size and started the process of looking for a mentor for
him, my sister suggested going on the New England Patriots website where I could email team players so
I selected the largest players and sent an email in hope that someone would respond…and they did! A
rookie player originally from Louisiana (by now David was 6’4 size 15 shoe) the players name was
Marquis Hill, his agent passed our numberss and we met that same day. He asked what I needed for
David and I responded just a mentor, someone he could relate to and help him be comfortable with his
size and someone he could talk to. Marquis asked if it were hard to find shoes for him I replied yes and
he asked to meet him on Newbury street at Nike town we did and they hit it off, Mr. Hill brought David
the last pair of size 15 shoe and we all were excited, now David had someone to talk to. Unfortunately,
not even a year later Marquis Hill died in a Jet ski accident while helping a friend.
When I think about the allegations that David actually wanted to hurt anyone, I know that David
will never follow through with any such thing. David was always trying to take care of people, and he
even saved a man’s life when he worked at a hotel downtown. when the man was being attacked with a
bat outside David let him in the hotel lobby and held the door locked and closed while the perpetrator
tried to convince David to let him in or let the guy out, David refused and called the authority’s. The guy
was bleeding profusely from his head and David cared for him and gave him a towel to help stop the
bleeding.
David was always trying to learn new things, always getting obsessed with this and that. While
employed David would spend his checks on books (and take out) and collected a vast array of books
from religious (Tora, Bibles and Quran and references), literature, autobiography’s, the constitution,
books on American law and the U.S. Presidents, college English and Algebra, Geometry, Trigonometry Everything and anything that seemed to stimulate his mind. He would come up with an idea and read

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about it all the time for several months. After High School David wanted to become a Heart Surgeon,
Sports Medical Doctor, A Federal Parole Officer owner of a Security Company (Big Men Incorporated),
and a religious Scholar to name just a few. He loves comedy shows, rap, poetry and would listen to
classical music while cleaning his room.
In the year 2000 month of November I suffered a ruptured Aneurysm I was in ICU for a week.
This was devastating and scary for David and his sister as they were present when it happened, they
contacted my mother while I was in excruciating pain and eventually the ambulance was called, they
saved my life. David missed a significant amount of school because I believe he was scared sometimes
to leave my side. That following year I married and delivered two additional children in which David was
extremely helpful. He cooked for them and picked them up from daycare when myself and ex-husband
were at work. David was their best friend/ big brother. He created songs with them when they were
home brought them treats, walked them to school, took them to McDonalds, parks and basically did
everything with them when I couldn’t. David has a warm energetic comical big personality and he is
easily loved, we call him the big teddy bear in my family “A Gentle Giant.” He is loved by everyone he
meets. He would always go with me to stores and was great company and help around the house
without asking. We once went to the store and a gentleman was astonished at his size and asked what
college do you play for “you do play football” David answered with a smirk like smile and swung his arms
as if holding a paddle and said with a deep voice “table tennis” is my choice of sports, he loved to see
people laugh, and surprised reactions and we all just burst out laughing.
We miss David tremendously at home and it has been devastating these past few years with the
loss of my brother, my father, my aunt and the incarceration of David all in the same year within months
apart.
When I heard the phone conversation the days in the courtroom I was devastated at the words
being spoken by David and couldn’t believe what I was hearing. The words enraged and disgusted me
and couldn’t understand how this was coming from the mouth of David. This was not at all what our
religion of Islam teaches us and not at all what I have taught David through his life or what I was taught.
This is a religion that teaches peace, tolerance, treating others with respect, follow the laws of the land
you live in and above all the worship of God The disgusting group called ISIS is a shameful and
embarrassment to true believers of Islam and twists the words of the word and to see and hear some of
David’s rhetoric emulating them this was beyond disgusting! I am not a licensed therapist but I believe
because David was in his room almost 24-7 and online playing video games wanting to debate trying to
acquire knowledge of all things he in turn became an idiot to the teachings of an idiotic despiteful
terrorist group of individuals, his research unfortunately guided him away from the reality of his spoken
words. After spending some time away from the idiotic non reality world of rhetoric, he acknowledged
and realized just how disgusting his words were….just how shameful and remorseful he is, and still
cannot believe how he spoke those words of disgust.
I wish there could be an interventional group put into place in this country to help our society of
children and numerous adults to stop this! This group seem to be brainwashing our youth and it needs
to stop. These violent video games seemed to be putting them in a virtual reality as well, where they
become immune to watching violence and talking with violent words I believe if we want to break this
cycle it’s important to listen to the youth that seemed to be brainwashed and find out what attracted
them to these disgusting teachings. I believe it will help to stop these terrorist groups from grabbing

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the minds of our youths. I believe the constant media attention seems to guide them to research and
without guidance unfortunately the brainwash is instilled. As his mother, I assure youDavid has extreme
remorse he acknowledges his words were disgusting and devastating and is no longer in a virtual
thought. David has expressed to me numerous times how completely remorseful, disgusted by his
words and saddened and if given the chance he could help others that may find themselves becoming
brainwashed from these groups of evil!
This is just a small overview of David Daoud Wright and I wanted to share this with you my
words…. coming from the heart of an American…a Muslim… and a Mother.
With the Kindest regards,
Shahidah J. Muhammad
(Mother of David Daoud Wright)