Just hearing about the nature and number of the injuries tells you to execute this woman. Her only hope is an OJ/Anthony type jury with no brain between them all.

Where do sick twisted people like this come from? Don't believe the defense for even a minute.

She needs lots of help, you take a life so easily how is that?can you give it back?

I've got one word to describe this women... psycho

.....and an Apple Employee heard the sound of Screams, bumps, "Oh God, please Help Me!" And did not respond.....This world that we live in...where people are steadily killing one another and we have bystanders that hear, see and know and will not respond. How desensitized have we become as a people. Well, I would not be suprised if we went back to the Roman Gladiator days of killing people in a stadium, while crowds of people watched in excitement. Until it's thier turn.....

the evidence should speak for its self and not our feelings, death is tragic murder is a tragedy and killing her does no one any good. Yet I strongly believe that she should pay for her crime, they should put her in a small space just like the size of victim coffin for a very long time and let her reflect on what she did.

I knew an ignorant person would get on here and make an ignorant comment...tomB can't you come up with something intelligent or is that not in your "nature".

this is sick, the store obviously knew something was going on between these employees and ignored it. This woman didn't lose it, it was premeditated and well thought out, she thought she would get the self defense clause, there is no equal justice here but to sentence her for life. If the other person had equal objects to fight back with and Norwood sustained almost equal injury or if there was evidence that Norwood needed to fight for her life then it is self defense, but the other woman sustained unjustified injury. Norwood should be locked up for life in prison, she could have walked away, the other lady could not run obvioulsy from the first blow. And how the hell were all these weapons in reach? Who conducted Norwood's background check?

A lot of these will not due because we are all at fault,...we all harbor this anger,...she is just one woman, I think if you multiply that by millions of people then you have a right to be scared...because that is a fact Jack...people are very angry in society, she vented her angre, and see what happens always death...look at the wars we have had...is that not anger, so much of displaced anger...we need to treat people with a better understanding of ourselves...

I agree-how could someone hear screams and not, at the very least, phone 911. Sadly we don't have the death penalty in MD for Norwood...she inflicted it upon Jayna Murray and it should be inflicted upon her.

I don't know about anyone else but I remember reading or hearing a story after the murder that Brittany Norwood worked at another Lululemon store in the Tysons Corner area but was transferred to the Bethesda location before she was suspected of stealing but she was also a great salesperson so the company didn't want to lose her. The parents should sue Lululemon although they probably won't especially since they attended the grand re-opening of the Bethesda store. As for Ms. Norword, she should spend the rest of he natural life in jail because I don't think the death penalty applies to this case. It was rage killing but I don't believe it was premeditated.

Please, please don't hesitate, lock up Norwood for the rest of her life.

What were Norwoods injuries? How many? and Why did she kill Murray, what did Murray use in her own defense to fight? paper, rock, scissors? I have a gun and you have a shoe, do I can cause to shoot you? Is that equal threat? I have a gun and you have gun.....

I have a gun and you have a shoe do I have equal threat? Do I have equal cause to shoot you? Can your shoe do equal harm? can your shoe kill me? Murray's family should file a civil case against the store. Have Norwood's medical history evaluated.

WOW....It's erie how much her behavior reminds me of my second wife. Take heed gentlemen. This is what you'll find lurking behind door #2....

Wow!!!! So many opinions and reviews. The way I see it is that tragedy has affected two families. We need 2 take time out and pray!!!

OK so you get angry even infuriated and the only way to handle it is a physical confrontation as an adult no less. Obviously she had bad feelings towards this person for sometime. What I want to know is what the hell was she thinking? After the first object it didn't occur to her to stop. Why waste the courts time with a trial take a plea and do your time. Depravity is depravity even claiming self defense its obvious at some point you were able to get away. You behaved like an animal

IMHO...we have an entire generation, and then some, that have been raised on a crappy diet. Sugar and fat. If you research into what a junk/fast food diet does to one's body, I feel, it explains to some extent, why "everyone" is depressed, angry, (to the point of hurting/killing someone!) inpatient, intolerant and so on. Hormones and blood sugar out of whack can create a monster. Add to the mix the stress of today's economy, living in unsafe communities, being uneducated, (by choice or otherwise) and poor choices used to escape one's situation, albeit temporarily, such as alcohol and or drugs. I am not excusing this behavior by any means. I am speaking from personal experience from being diagnosed incorrectly, years of anti-depressants which exacerbated the underlying problem, along with years that I put my family through so much stress from my outbursts and anger. What changed? A wonderful endocrinologist! After extensive tests ( 2 hours total for me) she discovered by changing my diet, getting my Vitamin D up to a normal range, 6-7 small HEALTHY meals throughout the day and increasing my exercise got my body firing on all cylinders and in the PROPER firing order. FEELING more energetic, stronger and alert allowed me to attain a more positive outlook with greater ease. Twenty five years of a slowly increasing hell and now as I am closer to 60 than 30, I feel 25! Just food for thought. Nothing is a fix all, but you are what you eat. Garbage in...garbage out.

This killer is an ANIMAL. She needs to be put to death.

you dont know the whole store was the girl being erassed and talked about pushed to this for some reason not saying to murder the person but you can go around doing things to coworkers thinking they all have sane minds you never know who you are dealing with thats why its best to just stay away and do your job. coworkers are no joke there is a lot of jealousy, hatered, prejudice, and cruelty that goes one in most jobs.

She hit this woman 322 times, that is over kill. What the hell did she do to deserve this?

Brittany Norwood and her attorney should plead insanity. PTSD is real!

I don't condone killing. I want to get that out there first. I don't know if it is just not talked about but hasn;t anyone one here been so mad that they 'blanked out' and said/did something they wouldn't normally if they were in their right mind?

The parents of the victim should bring a cause of action against Lululemon. As the employer had prior knowledge of this employee's erratic behavior, management should have taken step to mitigate this employee's exposure to other staff. There is no question that Lululemon has culpability in this case. There are a lot of excellent personal injury attorneys in Maryland.

The crazy beat,stabbed and used all kinds of tools to kill her. I feel bad for her but stone the crazy to death in the court streets.

Send me no more updates for this article.

My concern is the Apple store employee. This idiot has to know that if someone is desperate enough to call on God, which everyone is afraid to do these days for fear of getting sued, had to be a desperate situation. For God's sake, the Apple store is notorious for telephones. Did he or she not realize that if something had gone awry at that store next door and they were close enough to hear screams and cries, the people or person could have come over to the apple store and given them a run for their money? And I wish I could be the customer walking by to hear that Apple store employee Cry out, God, please help me! it would be extremely hard for me to ignore that. "GOD, PLEASE HELP US ALL!"

Take my email address and name off of your update list. This is disgusting.

Life for a life in this case. If not that then she should never be allowed to go free again. Let her loose it on some of those gang banging women in the super max they should send her to. No insanity defense for her. She didn't care about the life of her victim and went all "Hip Hop Gangster" on her.

Far too often some women think they can act as reprehensible as they want and there should be no consequences because they are female. I say there should be consequences. Treat her in accordance with her actions. Give Her Death!!!!!

Stop the hate and violence instead of talkin about each other help each other........racism (stupidity )...get it together people....

According to the report the victim received 322 injuries/hits in 15 minutes. As a hand-to-hand combat instructor, something does not add up. This equals 3 blows per second for 15 minutes!!! I do not know of any trained individual (far less an untrained one) capable of maintaining such an onslaught. Either this was the work of several persons or certain basic facts are incorect.

Try as they might, there is simply no acceptable defense which can be dreamed up by the lawyers. Forget all this PC nonsense about delving for some imaginary psychological flaw or subliminal motivation; this is the sort of crime which justifies punishments like public stoning. Hopefully, at least 322 stones would find their target. From my perspective, there is no "cruel and unusual punishment" harsh enough for this subhuman and an example needs to be set. Life in prison still translates to Alive, and that is an unacceptable outcome.

For all the people screaming to skin her alive and salt her, about all I can say is, you must make wonderful parents and coworkers, you sound about the same intelligence level as a hamster. You read an article about a murder, and you know it all. Most states have very specific requirements for the death penalty, one of those is usually premeditation or laying in wait. Crimes of this level of violence are seldom premeditated except by complete lunatics (like Manson), this kind of violence is almost always the result of someone just flipping out. Equally as funny is the people screaming for her head will ALWAYS be the same ones who call mid-easterners animals for beheading criminals. I notice a lot of women doing it here. You need to pick a story and stick with it, kids.

Seeee, I am getting angry comments,...are these comments by nature violent or hated from within one person or society or is a group mentality...hate is hate, I am not blaming society, I am blaming what this has brought us to this problem of violence, until we admit we all violent or the potential to be violent we will never heal...there is so much anger out there, from Wall Street to being at home, the moment we yell at some one is that violent...or hidden anger, we all need anger management...

correction Hatred

What could a CO-WORKER possibly do or say to merit an attack? What type of unstable animal gets hired to work with others? Whoever hired his animal put every customer who entered the store at risk! Furthermore, why were tools of that nature so close at hand in a retail store? It was not a hardware store. Defense can argue it was not premeditated, but common sense says no one uses that many "weapons" and engages in such a deadly attack for that length of time without having thought about it ahead of time. If she had "snapped," one weapon would seem reasonable and a spontaneous attack would not involve 322 wounds, 107 of them defensive. She is not fit for society, no evidence she can be rehabilitated so why should the taxpayers pay for her housing, clothing and food for the rest of her worthless life? She deserves death and not by lethal injection. Strap her in the chair and throw the switch!

HELLO!!! Killing is killing, we just label it to fit our needs. Murder, death penalty, war, and abortion are all ways people die. When people are killed for various reasons that "we" don't like, we call it "murder". Then "we" call it "the death penalty" when "we" murder them. Or if "we" do it in larger masses, "we" call it "war". Or if "we" do it to an unborn child, "we" call it "abortion". People, the end result is always the same, a loss of a human life by the hands of another human. It is just wrong any way you look at it. There are not any other animals in the rest of the world that I can think of that kills another animal for any reason other than they are carnivores, and it is food to them.

You are all ridiculous!
She is a filthy MURDERER. Not a "killer." A C O L D B L O O D E D MURDERER!
She deserves ONLY the death penalty. Let all who become enraged and fight KNOW THE CONSEQUENCES OF MURDER IS DEATH.

We all have our own opinions, This crime by Norwood was not premeditated, Norwood just lost it, however, she is a sick person and will spend the rest of her life in prison, to have done this crime and then try to cover it up, no person deserves this, however, folks need to mind there own business, Norwood was suspected of stealing, it should have been her supervisors that tended to this issue and if Murray would have mind her own business then maybe should would be alive today, some folks have a tendency of getting themselves involved and you never know what state of mind a person is in. She could have saved her own life.

This killing has deeper roots. They were obviously, both arguing about something. The "something" needs to be found out, My guess, It was either a very large sum of money, or deeper relationship...than known. By all the different items used and as many hits the victim's body took, there was something huge going on, and this female was not going to let that "something" go.

My guess is that she was hopped up on drugs.
Is PCP still in common use?

Obviously this woman was possessed by some kind of demon that made her act so violently. She should ask for forgiveness and if she does people should forgive her knowing that is was not her fault.

This is a horrific crime, no doubt about it, but I would add that this kind of rage had probably been building up in her for some time.. Maybe she had an abusive husband. I have met lots of people that take their rage out on someone other than the individual that caused the rage. They usually pick a weaker person that is easy to beat up on.. Very disturbing, but a reality. She does need to be locked up and hopefully will someday understand what she did and how truly disgusting it was. An act of a complete dumb animal with no control over their own self.

This girl or "thing" needs the death penalty. This was such a horrible crime. But I must add one note here. If the roles between the two girls were reversed.......everyone would have said Brittany was killed because she was black. I hope Brittany pays for her crime.

A beautiful young woman had to die just because this satanic, hateful animal lost it? This sick animal need to get the DEATH PENALTY!!!

I am so sick of people trying to make excuses of why a person kills. She must of done this because of how she was raised or because she was black and the other was white. Come on. She killed a woman. She needs to be punished. Unless you have been involved in a murder you have no idea what is going on in the families that are left behind to have to remember daily what happened to their loved ones. I do I had my grandparents murdered. We know who did it but can't put him away. You are reminded daily of it because of things like this. Trying to make an excuse for her is pure BULL. As far as the store next to them that heard cries of help face it we live in a society that people are afraid to get involved in anything anymore and that my friends is very disturbing. So quit making excuses for her she did what she did and she needs to go to jail for the rest of her life.

Thanks for making my point "Mick"...Sorry to bust your bubble but apes don't have afros. And being a black scientist, that's right, we exist. The majority of ape genes would be your own. Mixed in with your black ancestral mother that is. Don't believe it? Take a test. MtDNA genetics analysis and see what or who comes up in your blood line. You'll be surprised. You're not white Mick, you're a black man with a mutation that suppresses your melanin. You wouldn't exist if a black woman's gene, a black woman who might've looked like this sick young woman did, hadn't been strong enough for you to survive the last plague. I'll be she regrets that one. Look how it turned out and how grateful to her you all are. Nice lunch break. Continue your feast. Good to know not much has changed in some psyches. Peace.

The reality is....
God is judge and jury and He is the only one that has the absolute right to execute punishment upon her or anyone else. He is the Alpha and the Omega, He is the giver of life and only he should take it away!!

According to Bible prophecy we are in the last days before the Great Tribulation and the Battle of Armageddon. The bible speaks of these types of senseless murders, But it also speaks about not to judge but to pray for people like this who obviously don't know who God is in their life. So I say yes she needs help but so did many murders in the bible that God used for good. On the cross next to Jesus was murderer and and a theft and he said to them as surely as you are here with me today you will be in heaven with me tomorrow. (Already forgiven). So I agree with an earlier comment, she can get the help she needs, realize her problem and then help others with that same mind set BEFORE it is too late

Kells, not THAT is a point made I can exit on. Maybe there's hope for this world yet. Out.

here you go Melinka58 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NSpB10GdpkQ

Melanika : Never heard anyone hero worshiping any of the criminals you listed. That is ridiculous, and you are making yourself sound absurdly racist against "whites".
Johns Girl you are right. Affirmative action sucks, and people should be accepted to universities, etc. on intellectual merit, not because their skin is a darker shade !!!
I do appreciate that Melanika is well spoken, and literate, however-- unlike some of the misspelling , grammar ignorant "criminals" posting on here.
Oh-- and Norwood is obviously not just insane . She was angry with this particular person, and she made the choice to be cruel and evil . I don't care if her skin is violet , orange or green. She is evil .

I can't believe all of these comments. I think all of you should vote your conscience in the next election. Although we have Jerry Brown as governor, Maryland has O'Malley. I'd have to flip a coin to determine who is worse.

poorly written...i have no way of knowing who is Brittany and who is Jayna...is this a White on Black Crime or a Black on White Crime ?

LuLu Lemon should be responsible!! My daughter worked there and she was left alone at night to close up the store and go through the back parking lot to her car..very dangerous, especially if someone knows the ropes of how the inner workings of the store is. LuLu Lemon is verpriced and they treat thier empoyees like crap..make them compete against each other all the while chanting thier Namaste approach. So Sad!

I do remember when this story came out reading about something where Murray somehow/someway came accross something Norwood was doing which could cause her to lose her job (I think it was in fact stealing). She contacted Managers regarding this and I believe they were supposed to have a meeting the following morning. I may be wrong, but this is what came to mind as I'm reading this followup on the case. So, yes this does show a motive. What is really pathetic here is all the people trying to think of some rhyme/reason for this- a racial issue, some sort of argument b/t the two, some stress disorder... the fact remains that a human being is dead due to the hands of someone else. The crime scene clearly potrays an individual who was capable of violence beyond comprehension. This stuff is happening all around us- the rich, the poor, the nice, the angered, the perfect little family, the family living in poverty... it doesn't even matter anymore what you look like, your status, your character. Perfectly normal people are going out there and becoming complete animals at the switch of a button. You can ponder all you want about why or that there has to be some sort of rhyme/reason, but the fact remains someone was murdered at the hands of another... and quite frankly a murder scene where over 300 wounds were inflicted speaks volumes about where this person belongs for the remainder of their life.

Britney Norwood is a long time thief, accomplished liar, and savage murderer. She deserves worse than to be fed and housed for life. She knew she was going to be outed for thievery and came back to the store to kill the woman who was going to make her lose her job. Period. I call that premeditated.

she should be tried with a hate crime if a white would have savagely beaten a non white like this it would make international headlines and there would be hate crime charges against them with the death penalty given wake up white people are you ever going to learn

Who has claimed to speak for "white people"? Name that bigot!