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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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To: Pharmboy
I wish you would post that on every Giuliani thread, people don't seem to believe how anti second amendment he is.
221 posted on 01/28/2005 8:55:39 AM PST by pepperdog
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To: durasell
Concealed carry doesn't work.

Sorry but you are wrong. It works about 3 million times a year in the US according to the FBI report. You might want to read it. Also, it worked for me, I stopped a mugger with my carry piece. The carrier has the real element of surprise as the criminal has no idea you are armed and if you are being mugged, it normally will not be in a crowded area. Anytime a criminal has you under a gun you are in danger of dying at his whim. If you are carrying you wait your chance, give him the money and then draw to save your life. Store owners do it everyday and they are being covered by the robber also.

Didn't draw when you should have? Your fault and does not prove concealed carry doesn't work, it proves you don't have the guts to use a weapon when you need it.

222 posted on 01/28/2005 9:00:00 AM PST by calex59
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To: Revolting cat!
That's quite likely what he said in reply to his girlfriend when she said to him:

"Whatchoo have to do that for?"

223 posted on 01/28/2005 9:02:24 AM PST by Pharmboy (Dems lie because they have to)
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To: TheForceOfOne
I think we are saying the same thing basically.

Since Appalachian Redneck is my first language, I may have misunderstood you. ;-)

224 posted on 01/28/2005 9:03:09 AM PST by Ghengis
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To: jimbo123

OK guys, I got your correction. My mistake, it was the lower east side, not Brooklyn. However, from my days visiting starving artist buddies from college in Alphabet City, you can stray one block over there and find yourself in no-man's land.

Its essentially the same as parts of Williamsburg in Brooklyn. Gentrification next to trepidation. I can take care of my own, and even I knew that straying off the avenues over there at night (if you had to be there at all), was not a good idea. This was only two years ago, so I can't imagine all that much has changed.


225 posted on 01/28/2005 9:03:19 AM PST by johnnycap
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To: pepperdog

Yes...I do when I come across them.


226 posted on 01/28/2005 9:04:13 AM PST by Pharmboy (Dems lie because they have to)
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To: Pharmboy
I saw the tail end of an interview with Sparks this morning on GMA. How sad, and yet how stupid of her to call this pissant's bluff. In a day and age when human life does not seem to mean squat anymore she should have known better. Maybe she would still be alive, who knows.

My prayers for Sparks and Nicole's family.

227 posted on 01/28/2005 9:10:09 AM PST by Houmatt (America's own Holocaust: Abortion.)
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To: hopespringseternal
"Criminals have to decide whether you are handing over your wallet or pulling a gun, and they don't expect a gun or they just would have shot you in the first place."

A point which bears repeating.

228 posted on 01/28/2005 9:13:40 AM PST by Miss Behave (Beloved daughter of Miss Creant, super sister of danged Miss Ology, and proud mother of Miss Hap.)
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To: TheForceOfOne

Gee, I can come up with only 44.


229 posted on 01/28/2005 9:17:10 AM PST by PaRebel (Self defense: an unalienable right!!!)
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To: Pharmboy

Don't carry a gun if you're afraid to use it....the second he was hit he should have capped the bitch.


230 posted on 01/28/2005 9:17:41 AM PST by The Wizard (DemonRATS: enemies of America)
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To: Pharmboy

Sounds like she was drunk. In that case, what good would her carrying a gun have done?


231 posted on 01/28/2005 9:18:36 AM PST by cyborg
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To: budwiesest
What's needed are very well armed volunteers to go into these areas in the wee hours and begin capping this vermin. Set 'em up, and knock them down. Oh, and leave a bag of doughnuts for the chalk-outline crew.

New Yorkers don't want this (the majority anyway). They want less freedom, more gun control and deep down they want to be part of Quebec which can make them French and Canadian at the same time.

232 posted on 01/28/2005 9:20:32 AM PST by from occupied ga (Your government is your most dangerous enemy, and Bush is no conservative)
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To: calex59

To say nothing of the thug still being at large and there are potential future victims down the road. It's a civic duty to neutralize a criminal.


233 posted on 01/28/2005 9:22:08 AM PST by xp38
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To: rdb3
" Looking at her site, she was a flaming leftie. I'm convinced that we are going to hear cries and howls for more gun control from Hollyweird now."

Think you're right...The thug was obviously an NRA member. /sarcasm

They always find a way to turn the table.

234 posted on 01/28/2005 9:22:51 AM PST by F16Fighter
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To: Pharmboy

Sad. I won't live in the city.


235 posted on 01/28/2005 9:23:09 AM PST by Porterville (Never compromise what is right. Take your time to insult a liberal or have one unemployed.)
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To: orangelobster
I'm sure that whoever did this was caught on a security camera somewhere and will get what's coming to them.

In NYC that would most likely be 10 years with the opportunity for parole in 5. Meanwhile the young lady will remain dead, and liberal or not all of her hopes and dreams were stripped away by this piece of human garbage.

In Texas or Ga he would end up with the needle. Florida he'd ride old sparky, but NY will coddle him and turn him back on the streets in a few years (if they even bother to find him at all, after all it wasn't a cop he killed, just an ordinary citizen - not like she's part of the precious government)

236 posted on 01/28/2005 9:26:50 AM PST by from occupied ga (Your government is your most dangerous enemy, and Bush is no conservative)
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To: PaRebel

Go enough! :)


237 posted on 01/28/2005 9:31:55 AM PST by TheForceOfOne (Social Security – I thought pyramid schemes were illegal!)
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To: Ghengis

Rednecks and Hillbillies run in my family too!


238 posted on 01/28/2005 9:33:04 AM PST by TheForceOfOne (Social Security – I thought pyramid schemes were illegal!)
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To: cyborg
Well, maybe someone in her party could have been sober and armed. Again, the choice should be there.

Also, when I carried, I never drank to drunkeness.

239 posted on 01/28/2005 9:33:39 AM PST by Pharmboy (Dems lie because they have to)
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To: TheForceOfOne

Then you are truly a fortunate son!! Read "Born Fighting" by James Webb former SecNav.


240 posted on 01/28/2005 9:37:03 AM PST by PaRebel (Self defense: an unalienable right!!!)
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