A 32-year-old Iraqi-born woman died in California Saturday just days after she was brutally beaten. Shaima Alawadi was found on Wednesday lying in a pool of blood in her home next to a note saying, “Go back to your country.” She was a mother of five children, ranging in age from eight to 17. Her daughter, Fatima al-Himidi, spoke to the news media after the beating.

Fatima al-Himidi: “I mean, we’re speechless, you know? She was such an innocent woman. I mean, I just—why? Why did you do that? She was a housewife. She’s innocent. She hasn’t hurt anybody. She’s a mother of five. Why did you do it? I mean, I found her on the floor drowned in her own blood, with a letter next to her head saying, 'Go back to your country, you terrorist.' We’re not the terrorist; you are, whoever did it.”