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ACTRESS SLAIN
NY Post ^
| January 28, 2005
| MURRAY WEISS, PATRICK GALLAHUE and RICH CALDER
Posted on 01/28/2005 5:41:03 AM PST by Pharmboy
Rick Dembow January 28, 2005 -- A stunning 28-year-old actress died in her fiancé's arms yesterday after a Lower East Side thug answered her challenge "What are you going to do, shoot us?" by firing a single bullet into her chest, cops said. Nicole DuFresne, of Brooklyn, had just left a trendy bar with her fiancé and another couple when they were confronted at about 3:15 a.m. by four muggers two men and two women at the corner of Clinton and Rivington streets, police said. One of the thugs, who was carrying a gun, demanded money. DuFresne's fiancé, Jeffrey Sparks, 28, not seeing the mugger had a gun and not taking the request seriously, tried to push past the man.
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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Front Page News; News/Current Events; US: New York
KEYWORDS: bang; banglist; crime; darwinaward; dufresne; hangemhigh; murder; robbery; standuptocrime; victimsrights
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Even though crime is down in NYC, one must still be cautious out at 3 AM. What a senseless tragedy...
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posted on
01/28/2005 5:41:03 AM PST
by
Pharmboy
To: Pharmboy
NO MERCY:
Muggers pistol-whipped Jeffrey Sparks
(pictured), then killed fiancée Nicole
DuFresne after she said, "What are you going to do, shoot us?"
Rick Dembow
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posted on
01/28/2005 5:42:34 AM PST
by
Pharmboy
(Dems lie because they have to)
To: Pharmboy
Sarcasm is best restrained at the point of a gun.
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posted on
01/28/2005 5:43:28 AM PST
by
TexasNative2000
(When it's all said and done, someone starts another conversation.......)
To: All
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posted on
01/28/2005 5:43:29 AM PST
by
Pharmboy
(Dems lie because they have to)
To: Pharmboy
"the corner of Clinton and Rivington streets"
A very bad neighborhood, yet stupid yuppies still try and party there. I grew up on the east side of Manhattan and people's willingness to travel on the lower east side in the dead of night has always baffled me.
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posted on
01/28/2005 5:43:41 AM PST
by
jocon307
(Ann Coulter was right)
To: Pharmboy
They dissed the thugs. Thug had to demonstrate he had a gun in order to keep his thug "honor" intact. Find the killer and send him to old sparky.
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posted on
01/28/2005 5:44:15 AM PST
by
dennisw
(Pryce-Jones: Arab culture is steeped in conspiracy theories, half truths, and nursery rhyme politics)
To: Pharmboy
I don't understand.
Aren't guns outlawed in New York City?
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posted on
01/28/2005 5:44:29 AM PST
by
OldSmaj
(Jihad this, Islam! Your religion is false and your god is non-existent! Come get me.)
To: TexasNative2000
Yep. And they probably had--at most--30 bucks between them. Just give the perp the money and keep your mouth shut. Awful.
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posted on
01/28/2005 5:44:56 AM PST
by
Pharmboy
(Dems lie because they have to)
To: Pharmboy
Senseless.
Sometimes it's wise to keep that "Brooklyn attitude" in check. Just give them the money.
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posted on
01/28/2005 5:45:56 AM PST
by
nuconvert
(No More Axis of Evil by Christmas ! TLR)
To: Pharmboy
This may be her...
http://www.nicoledufresne.com/
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posted on
01/28/2005 5:46:24 AM PST
by
Living Free in NH
(Where am I and why am I in this handbasket?)
To: Pharmboy
"What are you going to do, shoot us?" Umm... yes!
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posted on
01/28/2005 5:47:26 AM PST
by
killjoy
(War is not the answer, simply part of the solution)
To: Pharmboy
Condolences to family and friends.
12
posted on
01/28/2005 5:47:53 AM PST
by
PGalt
To: Pharmboy
NYC - Where law abiding citizens are unarmed victims...
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posted on
01/28/2005 5:47:59 AM PST
by
2banana
(My common ground with terrorists - They want to die for Islam, and we want to kill them.)
To: Pharmboy
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posted on
01/28/2005 5:48:04 AM PST
by
dennisw
(Pryce-Jones: Arab culture is steeped in conspiracy theories, half truths, and nursery rhyme politics)
To: Pharmboy
Yes it is senseless but I guess such a left winger as she is just couldn't believe that anyone could be that mean.
Check out her web site http://www.nicoledufresne.com/
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posted on
01/28/2005 5:48:17 AM PST
by
Ace the Biker
(I wasn't born in Texas but I got here as fast as I could.)
To: nuconvert
Unless you are Bernie Goetz...
To: Living Free in NH
Ohmigosh, how quick you are to find that. That's her alright, it's the same picture as is in the paper.
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posted on
01/28/2005 5:48:49 AM PST
by
jocon307
(Ann Coulter was right)
To: Pharmboy
I wonder what her blood-alcohol level was. Booze has a knack of making otherwise smart people say stupid things.
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posted on
01/28/2005 5:49:51 AM PST
by
Klatuu
To: jocon307
A very bad neighborhood, yet stupid yuppies still try and party there. I grew up on the east side of Manhattan and people's willingness to travel on the lower east side in the dead of night has always baffled me.Likewise folks (esp. teenage girls ) who would never dream of hitch-hiking in the US, think it "oh-so-free-spirit" to do it in another country.
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posted on
01/28/2005 5:51:35 AM PST
by
yankeedame
("Oh, I can take it but I'd much rather dish it out.")
To: dennisw
From her site:
Organizations of which I am a member:
Fractured Atlas *** Planned Parenthood *** Theaters Against War
Organizations which I support:
Center For Public Integrity *** Project FIND *** War Widows
Friends In My Community:
SKWIBO *** Throwing Bones *** Capitol Hill Arts
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posted on
01/28/2005 5:51:54 AM PST
by
Petronski
(I'm not always cranky.)
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