Dr. Jena Salem, a medical resident and physician in DeKalb County, Georgia, survived a nightmare attack in late January 2026. While asleep in her rental home, Derrick Burnstine cut the power, broke in, strangled her in a chokehold, dragged her to the basement, sexually assaulted her, slit her throat with a kitchen knife, and stabbed her in the chest — collapsing a lung. She fought back fiercely until the knife broke inside her, then escaped to a neighbor for help.
The suspect, Derrick Burnstine, was arrested nearby. He faces charges including home invasion, aggravated sodomy, kidnapping, attempted murder, and aggravated assault. He is being held without bond and has a prior criminal record.
This story has received almost no national media coverage because the races of the victim and attacker do not fit the preferred narrative. But imagine if a White man did this to a Black woman.
This is the America women are forced to live in.
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