Funeral services were pending Saturday for a 53-year-old woman who was viciously attacked nearly two months ago near the Venice Canals.
Sarah Alden had been in a coma since the April 6 attack, and she was declared brain-dead on Monday. Friends said she was taken off life support on Friday, after her organs were harvested for donation.Alden was one of two women who were attacked near the canals on April 6.
Alden, a mother of two sons, was in the process of moving to Venice when she was attacked. According to a GoFundMe page established to help pay funeral expenses, she was planning to meet two close friends for breakfast on April 7 to tell them she was moving to the Los Angeles area from Massachusetts.
"She was a lover of sunrises on the east coast and sunsets on the west coast," a friend wrote on the page."Sarah adored her two sons, her animals, and was blessed with a refined eye for vintage jewelry which she sold on roseark.com. At 53 years old, Sarah was looking to start a new chapter in her journey; to walk a new road. Instead, her life was violently taken from her."
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