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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
Sad she had to die like this. 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.


21 posted on 01/28/2005 5:52:58 AM PST by rdb3 (The wife asked how I slept last night. I said, "How do I know? I was asleep!")
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To: rdb3

Guns are already banned in NYC for all practical purposes. Yet thug had one. Victim didn't. Yes there should be gun laws -- mandatory carry.


22 posted on 01/28/2005 5:55:18 AM PST by bvw
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To: rdb3

"I'm convinced that we are going to hear cries and howls for more gun control from Hollyweird now."

Now, now, NYC had already arranged it so that only the outlaws have guns.


23 posted on 01/28/2005 5:55:39 AM PST by jocon307 (Ann Coulter was right)
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To: Petronski

She won't get a chance to test out the aphorism: A conservative is a liberal who's been mugged


24 posted on 01/28/2005 5:55:53 AM PST by dennisw (Pryce-Jones: Arab culture is steeped in conspiracy theories, half truths, and nursery rhyme politics)
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To: Ace the Biker
I had not seen her website until you linked it. Yep...you are prolly right in that her lefty beliefs and reaction to the shooter led to her death. In the Post article it also says that she was raped in college and the play she wrote came out of her therapy for the brutal act.

Too bad she did not get a chance to mature in her thinking...

25 posted on 01/28/2005 5:56:41 AM PST by Pharmboy (Dems lie because they have to)
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To: TexasNative2000
Sarcasm is best restrained at the point of a gun.

Reading the article, it says she did not realize there was a gun and tried to push past.

26 posted on 01/28/2005 5:58:19 AM PST by smith288 ("Bravery is not a reaction to fear but the act of ignoring it from honor.")
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To: Pharmboy
"What are you going to do, shoot us?"

According to Marc MacYoung (or one of those guys) that is very common. Words are exchanged, a weapon is displayed, and somebody uses the “you don’t have the balls” line, or some permutation.

He said of the gunman, "It looked like it's probably the first robbery he'd ever done. He wasn't good at it."

I think I disagree with that assessment. I base that on the fact that he ended up with what he wanted and got away. At least for now. Leaving the primary scene is step one.

Granted you’d probably want to keep a lower profile and not kill a lot of people – if you want to spend the maximum amount of time out of jail. But even if they were teens, there’s a lot of teens that have been robbing and killing four or five years at that point. It is very much their “profession.”

27 posted on 01/28/2005 5:59:30 AM PST by Who dat?
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To: Pharmboy

THIS is why I am not 'soft on crime'.


28 posted on 01/28/2005 6:00:30 AM PST by Lazamataz (Running around in a circle waving my arms and screaming like a little girl)
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To: OldSmaj

I had a carry permit in NYC for 19 years...and then Giuliani came in and I (along with thousands of others) could not re-up for it. Just remember that fact (and that he supports late term abortions) before we all get goopy eyed about him running for POTUS.


29 posted on 01/28/2005 6:00:35 AM PST by Pharmboy (Dems lie because they have to)
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To: Pharmboy

get a rope...


31 posted on 01/28/2005 6:02:11 AM PST by Jon Alvarez
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To: smith288

Nope--her boyfriend did not see a gun and pushed past, thinking that she was behind him. She evidently saw the gun and made the remark that cost her life.


32 posted on 01/28/2005 6:02:51 AM PST by Pharmboy (Dems lie because they have to)
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To: Jon Alvarez

I would be happy to push the plunger on the hot shot for this thug...and, I predict the cops make an arrest within 48 hours.


33 posted on 01/28/2005 6:04:26 AM PST by Pharmboy (Dems lie because they have to)
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To: Lazamataz

You realize of course, that New York has had the death penalty ever since Mr. Cuomo was voted out of office but to my knowledge, it HAS NEVER BEEN USED since its reinstitution (same in New Jersey, thanks to liberal judges appointed by the likes of Christine Whitman who find endless "stays" in execution to be justified). The NY death penalty is used only for innocent people, like this beautiful young actress.


34 posted on 01/28/2005 6:04:42 AM PST by laconic
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To: laconic

Pataki has been a huge disappointment, especially to gun owners.


35 posted on 01/28/2005 6:10:55 AM PST by Lazamataz (Running around in a circle waving my arms and screaming like a little girl)
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To: Pharmboy
"What are you going to do, shoot us?"

Mugger will get off using the "Nobody likes a smart-ass" defense.

36 posted on 01/28/2005 6:11:48 AM PST by Redbob
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To: Pharmboy
... not taking the request seriously, tried to push past the man.

Death by arrogance.

37 posted on 01/28/2005 6:12:08 AM PST by JoeSixPack1 (I am now a "SNAPDRAGON" Part of me has lost its snap and the other part is draggin')
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To: Pharmboy

A teenage boy I know was mugged at gunpoint on his way home from the movies. This was a Northern Virginia suburb.

He gave the guy his whole wallet (without any lip) and then ran. He lived to tell me about it.


38 posted on 01/28/2005 6:12:17 AM PST by Snapple
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To: smith288

Actually the article says that the fiance did not see the gun and tried to push past, not her.


39 posted on 01/28/2005 6:12:26 AM PST by FairfaxVA (SELECT * FROM liberals WHERE clue > 0. Zero rows returned!)
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To: Pharmboy
I can name 357 ways that situation could have been handled.
Happiness is a warm gun and a dead thug!
40 posted on 01/28/2005 6:13:57 AM PST by TheForceOfOne (Social Security – I thought pyramid schemes were illegal!)
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