In this picture, anyway, Ms. Willis-Starbuck looks a bit unhinged....
Posted on 11/07/2005 7:54:04 AM PST by SmithL
How's this for chilling -- the night before she was shot in Berkeley over the summer, Dartmouth College student Meleia Willis-Starbuck handled the very gun that was used to kill her.
That's the story Willis-Starbuck's friend and accused killer Christopher Hollis is telling authorities, and it's one of several new details emerging from the tragic shooting.
The 19-year-old Willis-Starbuck, who graduated from Berkeley High School and had just finished her freshman year at Dartmouth, was arguing with a group of UC Berkeley football players and their friends on College Avenue early July 17 and reportedly used her cell phone to call Hollis.
Hollis, 22, arrived in a car and allegedly fired several shots into the crowd from a half block away, one of which hit Willis-Starbuck in the chest.
Nobody wants to talk about it publicly, but according to attorneys and law enforcement sources close to the case, significant new evidence is emerging on Willis-Starbuck's role in the incident.
It's been reported that the trouble started when one of the players insulted Willis-Starbuck and her friends, calling one of them "Chewbacca,'' a reference to the large, wooly character from "Star Wars."
It turns out that witnesses have told authorities that at least one player tried to apologize for the name calling but that Willis-Starbuck wouldn't back down, even when her friends tried to coax her into a car.
"I got my people,'' sources quote Willis-Starbuck as having said.
In the nine minutes leading up to her fatal shooting at 1:43 a.m., cell phone records show she placed five calls to Hollis -- reaching him four times -- and by most accounts, cajoled her friend to come to her aid.
Hollis has told police that Willis-Starbuck knew he had a gun because she had actually handled his .38-caliber revolver just
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Idiots with guns.
So, it was touching the gun that must have done her in. /s
How is this a story, other than to blame the victim because she had the gun? Sheesh.
In this picture, anyway, Ms. Willis-Starbuck looks a bit unhinged....
Sounds like the 'victim' was an active participant, maybe even a perpetrator. It makes a lot more sense now. It even sounds a bit like justice. She wants a big scene and gets one.
It backfired on her and she's dead.
Pretty hot for a Wookie. For a person . . .
She put her hands on evil. No wonder it came back for her. Chilling. * shudder *
Keepin' it real.
Thanks for the update.
Quite a popular young lady. Just did a quick search and there were thousands of hits on her name and all kinds of memorial and benefits to her.
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Police: Slain Ivy Leaguer asked for gun
BERKELEY, Calif. - A college student was shot to death after she called a friend for help in an argument and told him to bring a gun - which became the weapon that killed her, police said.
Meleia Willis-Starbuck, 19, a Dartmouth College student home for the summer, was slain July 17, just moments after calling Christopher Hollis for help as she and some friends argued with a group of young men.
Authorities believe that when Hollis arrived, he fired at the men from a car, unintentionally shooting Willis-Starbuck.
"One of the witnesses heard a female say 'Bring the heat, bring the heat,'" meaning come with a weapon, Officer Steve Rego said Friday. He said that, based on the investigation, it appears that Willis-Starbuck was the woman asking for the gun.
It was her fault because she called a gang-banger with bad aim. She should have called a gangsta buddy with better aim. At least she won't repeat the mistake.
Is that really a woman? That is one ugly chewbacca lookin thing.
Somebody please remind me as to why American students can't carry concealed weapons? I thought the Constitution was still the law of the land. Maybe not. American college students must live in fear and terror while they get their education.
And unprepared law-abiding citizens without guns. Go figure.
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