PHILADELPHIA — A man accused of beating his girlfriend to death and calling an Uber to take her to a hospital was charged with murder, according to police records.
Police said Nicholas Forman buckled 22-year-old Sabrina Harooni’s injured body into an Uber on Monday and had the driver take them to a hospital.
Harooni, of Gilbertsville, was pronounced dead at the hospital from injuries to her face, head and neck.
The Montgomery County Coroner’s Office determined the manner of Harooni’s death was homicide.
Forman, 23, of Collegeville, was arrested Thursday afternoon and charged with first- and third-degree murder.
Nicholas Forman was arrested in the death of his girlfriend in Montgomery County. Police say he beat her to unconsciousness before ordering an Uber the next morning to take her near-lifeless body to a hospital, where he claimed three women had beat her up. https://t.co/y9EUKhL7RW pic.twitter.com/mNgAPD1vhl
— NBC10 Philadelphia (@NBCPhiladelphia) February 7, 2020
Forman has denied the charges and said Harooni had been attacked by a group of women.
The affadavit details another account from an Uber driver who drove the couple home and told police that the couple got into a heated dispute regarding text messages from Harooni’s ex-boyfriend.
Man who allegedly beat girlfriend to death ordered her an Uber to the hospital https://t.co/8vfi9HMgHf pic.twitter.com/XPkItKLGuY
— New York Post (@nypost) February 7, 2020
Police found a video on Forman’s cell phone including an audio and video recording shortly before midnight Sunday that appeared to show Harooni unresponsive and lying on her back. Steele said a man’s voice can be heard saying, “This is what a cheating liar gets.”
#MontcoPa DA Kevin Steele alleged Nicholas Forman, hours after killing his girlfriend, hailed an Uber & took her to #Pottstown hospital.
— Carl Hessler Jr. (@MontcoCourtNews) February 7, 2020
“The victim was cold to the touch, with blue lips and not breathing,” detectives alleged pic.twitter.com/vN1YFwPDdj
Authorities told the Associated Press on Friday that they don’t know if Forman has an attorney yet or if will be appointed a public defender. As police were him away to take him to prison on Thursday, he told journalists he was innocent and cursed at them.
