Friends Organize Tributes for Slain Lululemon Employee

Friends of are beginning to make plans for tributes to the young woman that they describe as adventurous and full of life.

Murray, 30, was by two masked men Friday at Bethesda’s Lululemon store, where she worked.  Murray was sexually assaulted and beaten to death, police said. Another female employee, 27, was also sexually assaulted, but survived.

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Many point to a video of Murray bungee jumping to celebrate her 30th birthday as evidence of her adventurous spirit. Friends also said she had travelled across the globe.

“People don’t know how to take it,” Murray’s friend, Judd Borakove, owner of Crossfit Bethesda, told reporters as they gathered for a press briefing near the Lululemon store  Monday. “It’s crying all day long, it’s outrage, it runs the gamut.”

Borakove said he first got to know Murray when she reached out to him to work as a Lululemon ambassador, a community member that does outreach work for the store. Soon after, Murray started working out at Crossfit – located on Norfolk Avenue – and the two became friends.

Murray was very close with the community of women who worked at the store, Borakove said. Murray also had a boyfriend who lived in Seattle, according to Borakove and another friend, Heather Barron.

Murray’s family – who friends said live in the Houston area – recently asking for privacy as they grieve.

There hasn’t yet been an announcement on funeral arrangements. But Murray’s friends are planning to gather for an informal celebration of her life on Friday. The gathering will be “a few friends, old and new, getting together at a bar to celebrate the good times had with Jayna,” a friend, Kara Sokol, wrote in an email to Patch.

The gathering is planned for 6p.m. Friday at James Hoban’s Irish Restaurant and Bar in Dupont Circle.

Borakove said he plans to help to organize a run/walk in Murray’s honor in downtown Bethesda. He hopes the event will take place sometime in the late summer or early fall.