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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"You have people arguing here who have never set foot in NYC."
Yeah, there seems to be an inordinate number of people that are gleefully blaming the victim as well as people that have never been here lecturing about how the jucicial system works here. Some people seem to get their ideas of gotham from reading batman comics.
Sorry about the confusion.
Yes...no matter that she was a mindless lib; no matter that she should've watched her mouth looking into a gun barrel; no matter that she was crime victim before. She did not deserve to die at the hands of this amoral sociopath.
Who knows...I remember coming out of a bar one night and seeing an investment banker type sitting against a building with his eyeball hanging by a thread out of the socket.
"Dude, you okay?"
"I'll kick his A@@!"
"Okay, I'm gonna call 911 for ya..."
Kids show up in NYC and either think it's like the movies or that they're tougher than they really are..."
That's true. My lesson learned from this... don't say 'shoot me' to someone holding a gun to my face.
Guns don't kill people, Bush kills people.
Bush's Fault.
Does this mean that only those who have lived in a place can discuss what goes on there? Is there some sort of special "New York Knowledge" that can only be obtained by living in the rotten apple?
Obviously a fake story. NYC doesn't allow people to carry guns!
Clearly those couples had no clue how to behave in Brooklyn.
I was married to a fellow who'd grown up in Brooklyn, but we lived in San Fran. One night coming home in the wee hours, we parked a few blocks from home, and as we walked down the dark deserted street, a car pulled up at the corner, blocking our path. Three thugs got out. Menacing. Without a word and without faltering, I stepped close to my husband and we just kept walking toward them. Their mouths dropped open and they got into their car and sped away. "What did you do?" I asked DH. "I visualized pulling them apart limb from limb."
Not that it would work for everyone, but there is a certain street lingo people who grow up in dangerous 'hoods understand. Too bad these vics did not.
Of course not, but the discussion should maybe include some more questions and less pronouncements. For instance, the people who shot the girl were almost assuredly bloods, because it's close to their territory. The place where the shooting happened is the lower east side, which has been a home to countless immigrants, but has lately been taken over to some degree by hipsters. The street that it happened is not a main thoroughfare, but a smaller side street that is more narrow than most streets and not all that well lit.
Etc. etc. etc.
Well said.
Bloomberg should be indicted as an accessory before the fact.
The model chick is from Brooklyn. The shooting happened in Manhattan. It's still unfortunate. I would have given them the pocketbook.
And that may not have saved you.
"...And will have the obligatory picture of the suspect at his 5th grade graduation..."
So true...and after providing all the glorious accolades, one has to wonder why adoring relatives haven't taken another picture of the lil' precious in the interim SEVEN YEARS he has been out preying praying with his fellow choirboys.
~ Blue Jays ~
That should be true of almost every discussion thread on this forum :-)
Any lawyers out there? Can they do this with any chance of success?
Probably not -- the perp walk is a long and celebrated tradition in NYC.
What a stupid thing to say to a criminal in NY in the wee hours of the morning....tragic.
Oooops. Then the vic must have had her good sense fogged by booze to challenge the perp as she did. Such an unfortunate case.
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