Police puzzled after rising stylist to stars is found dead in Bronx
BY JONATHAN LEMIRE, KERRY BURKE and RICH SCHAPIRO
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITERS
Friday, June 20th 2008, 11:46 PM
Morrison was found behind this Bronx apartment building a week ago, possibly pushed off the roof.
Before her 27th birthday, Sadia Morrison had worked her way out of a Bronx housing project and become a celebrity image consultant for 50 Cent, Jets running back Thomas Jones and boxer Zab Judah.
She moved to Harlem and opened a company with a specific goal in mind - to become one of the leading figures in her industry.
But Morrison's life was cut tragically short June 13 when her lifeless body was found behind a Bronx apartment building.
A week later, her death is still shrouded in mystery.
Cops are trying to determine if Morrison, 26, was thrown off the building and by whom, while her loved ones remain baffled over how she ended up in the Bronx.
"She wasn't supposed to leave Harlem that day. She had no reason to be in the Bronx," Morrison's brother Paul said. "[Sadia] was too famous to just die and nobody knows what happened or how it happened."
The medical examiner still has not ruled on Morrison's cause of death pending further testing.
Police sources said foul play is suspected. Cops are zeroing in on a man she was dating who lived in the building where she was found.
Her last day alive began like any other.
Morrison, who was with football player Adam (Pacman) Jones during a melee in Las Vegas last year that ended with three people shot, called her sister's house early Friday morning.
It was a brief, routine call, Paul Morrison said, in which Sadia seemed completely relaxed.
Morrison, who recently launched Project Bambi Media Group, then dropped by a hair salon on 125th St. before bumping into a friend, Bambi Taylor, 27.
The pair chatted for roughly two hours before parting around 1 p.m. Taylor said that Morrison told her she was going to get her hair braided at a nearby salon as they said goodbye.
She never made it there.
Just a few hours later, at 3:54 p.m., Morrison's body was found behind the Highbridge Houses on University Ave.
"I have no clue as to who she would know in that building," Taylor said. "That's the big question. Who was she seeing? How did she get there?"
Iraida Ramos, a resident, said she had seen Morrison coming in and out of an unoccupied apartment on the building's top floor in recent weeks.
Morrison's shocking death has left her brother and sister - both of her parents are deceased - wondering what could have been for their high-achieving sibling.
"She was extremely successful," Paul Morrison said. "Finally, both of her feet were in the door. She was about to take off."
rschapiro@nydailynews.com
With Jeff Wilkins
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