Posted on 06/20/2005 3:11:00 PM PDT by Coleus
Merline Port-Louis knew she was a woman in danger.
In the weeks before she was shot to death early Saturday morning, her estranged boyfriend, Marlon Fann, called and threatened to kill her and her family three times, Nassau police said.
Port-Louis took the appropriate measures: She made copies of the threats, filed charges with police and got a panic button to press in case of emergency.
But neither her efforts nor those of police were enough to stop Fann from pulling out a gun and shooting Port-Louis in the driveway of her New Cassel home, and then calling her mother and threatening to do the same to her and police if they tried to arrest him, police said.
Yesterday, Fann was still at large, and police moved Port-Louis' mother and 3-year-old daughter to an undisclosed location. That nearly every means of protecting Port-Louis was exhausted but insufficient is the frustration of police.
"I think she did everything she could," said Det. Sgt. Richard Laursen of the Nassau Homicide Squad. "There's only so much a court order will do. If the person wants to disregard it, he's going to."
Laursen said police have been looking for Fann since Port-Louis reported receiving a threat from him on May 15. During that call, made a month after Fann was released from jail for attacking her in a West Hempstead parking lot three years ago, he said he would kill her and her family.
Police tried to locate Fann by tracing his phone calls, contacting family in Queens and equipping Port-Louis with the emergency button. They also offered Port-Louis space in a shelter for victims of domestic violence, but she declined.
Police are asking anyone with tips on Fann's whereabouts to call Crime Stoppers at 800-244-TIPS.
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these 2 items can't protect you:
this can:
........"I think she did everything she could," said Det. Sgt. Richard Laursen of the Nassau Homicide Squad. "There's only so much a court order will do. If the person wants to disregard it, he's going to."....
When are the police and citizens going to learn that the police can't protect everyone all the time. We have a constitutional and God-given right to defend ourselves.
Once again, the Left's version of Gun Control results in another dead victim.
Moreover the police are under no legal obligation to protect you.
Exactly.
Preach it, C.....
The family should sue due to the clear violation of the victims 2nd amendment rights.
Time was, her brothers/father/uncles/cousins would round up a posse and pay that boy a visit. He'd be headed out of town to nurse his bruises, knowing not to show his face in that county again.
Sure, she did everything according to the law and what did the law do for her? Nothing. Ya gotta be dead first then they arrest someone.
This moron should be in another line of work.
No, she didn't, einstein. It never occured to her to protect herself; it's freapin' illegal.
Moreover the police (Uniformed Tax Collector) are under no legal obligation to protect you.
Just my two cents
TT
Or not.
Couldn't have said it better myself. When will my fellow sisters learn to defend themselves.
Red
Thanks for putting your NRA membership in your tagline.
Others, please join the NRA and put the initials in your tagline. Thanks. I hope every Freeper joins the fight for your Seond Amendment Rights.
Red
Done.
If that lady weren't so brainwashed by the media, she would have used some of the energy she expended making useless photocopies and purchased a firearm from a friend living elsewhere. After getting some practice with a couple hundred rounds of ammunition, she could have just driven home with the dang thing in her trunk. It never would have needed to come out of her bedroom closet except in the most grave of circumstances.
It's trite, but better judged by twelve than carried by six.
~ Blue Jays ~
Ping. The sheeple in NY are brainwashed. A sad tale.
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