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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: durasell

"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.


261 posted on 01/28/2005 10:11:18 AM PST by orangelobster
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To: Pharmboy

Sorry about the confusion.


262 posted on 01/28/2005 10:11:51 AM PST by satchmodog9 (Murder and weather are our only news)
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To: cherry

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.


263 posted on 01/28/2005 10:12:36 AM PST by Pharmboy (Dems lie because they have to)
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To: BurbankKarl

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..."


264 posted on 01/28/2005 10:14:11 AM PST by durasell (Friends are so alarming, My lover's never charming...)
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To: Pharmboy

That's true. My lesson learned from this... don't say 'shoot me' to someone holding a gun to my face.


265 posted on 01/28/2005 10:15:59 AM PST by cyborg
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To: Pharmboy

Guns don't kill people, Bush kills people.

Bush's Fault.


266 posted on 01/28/2005 10:16:08 AM PST by melbell (A freudian slip is when you mean one thing, and say your mother)
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To: durasell
You have people arguing here who have never set foot in NYC.

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?

267 posted on 01/28/2005 10:16:17 AM PST by from occupied ga (Your government is your most dangerous enemy, and Bush is no conservative)
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To: Pharmboy

Obviously a fake story. NYC doesn't allow people to carry guns!


268 posted on 01/28/2005 10:16:49 AM PST by Aarchaeus
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To: johnnycap
Overall, they look like easy marks. Ego and emotion ride high on the part of the amateur stick up team and incredulity, self involvement and maybe alchohol seem to cloud the judgement of the two couples.

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.

269 posted on 01/28/2005 10:20:01 AM PST by Veto! (Opinions freely dispensed as advice)
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To: from occupied ga

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.


270 posted on 01/28/2005 10:21:24 AM PST by durasell (Friends are so alarming, My lover's never charming...)
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To: TexasNative2000
Sarcasm is best restrained at the point of a gun.

Well said.

271 posted on 01/28/2005 10:21:29 AM PST by Fiddlstix (This Tagline for sale. (Presented by TagLines R US))
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To: Pharmboy

Bloomberg should be indicted as an accessory before the fact.


272 posted on 01/28/2005 10:22:25 AM PST by pabianice
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To: Veto!

The model chick is from Brooklyn. The shooting happened in Manhattan. It's still unfortunate. I would have given them the pocketbook.


273 posted on 01/28/2005 10:23:07 AM PST by cyborg
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To: cyborg

And that may not have saved you.


274 posted on 01/28/2005 10:24:52 AM PST by bvw
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To: PallMal
Hi All-

"...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 ~

275 posted on 01/28/2005 10:25:56 AM PST by Blue Jays (Rock Hard, Ride Free)
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To: durasell
Of course not, but the discussion should maybe include some more questions and less pronouncements

That should be true of almost every discussion thread on this forum :-)

276 posted on 01/28/2005 10:26:43 AM PST by from occupied ga (Your government is your most dangerous enemy, and Bush is no conservative)
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To: pabianice
Someone earlier on in this thread suggested that crime victims in NYC should file a class action suit against the city for not allowing them to defend themselves with a legal weapon and placing them in mortal danger from perps.

Any lawyers out there? Can they do this with any chance of success?

277 posted on 01/28/2005 10:26:57 AM PST by Pharmboy (Dems lie because they have to)
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To: Blue Jays

Probably not -- the perp walk is a long and celebrated tradition in NYC.


278 posted on 01/28/2005 10:27:07 AM PST by durasell (Friends are so alarming, My lover's never charming...)
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To: Pharmboy

What a stupid thing to say to a criminal in NY in the wee hours of the morning....tragic.


279 posted on 01/28/2005 10:27:57 AM PST by trubluolyguy ("I like you, therefore when I rule the world, your death shall be quick and painless")
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To: cyborg

Oooops. Then the vic must have had her good sense fogged by booze to challenge the perp as she did. Such an unfortunate case.


280 posted on 01/28/2005 10:28:15 AM PST by Veto! (Opinions freely dispensed as advice)
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