K-Romulus
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I remember this story a while back.
For the L&P hook, read the highlight as to how CCW could have stopped this pack of animals. This sort of scum knows only two social concepts: predator or prey.
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/05/nyregion/05kill.html
Would that samaritan's actions count as a DGU?
Edited to add more:
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/04/nyregion/04killing.html
NYC has something like 50,000 police officers for a city of 301 square miles, and even they couldn't do anything about these thugs after they were reported to 911.
For the L&P hook, read the highlight as to how CCW could have stopped this pack of animals. This sort of scum knows only two social concepts: predator or prey.
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/05/nyregion/05kill.html
October 5, 2006
Woman’s Defiance Led Mugger to Kill Her, Accomplice Testifies
By ANEMONA HARTOCOLLIS
A teenage mugger took the witness stand yesterday and laid out for a jury the rules of the street that dictated why an actress and playwright on the verge of making it in New York was shot dead, while other mugging victims that night were allowed to live.
It wasn’t the color of her skin, or the amount of money in her purse, the mugger said, but the victim’s attitude — her insouciance, defiance and disdain that made the mugger’s accomplice shoot the actress, 28-year-old Nicole duFresne, once in the chest, killing her.
“What are you going to do, you going to shoot us? Is that what you wanted?” Ms. duFresne demanded, according to Tatiana McDonald, one of the muggers, who testified yesterday in State Supreme Court in Manhattan.
As Ms. duFresne shouted those words, she walked up to Rudy Fleming, whom Miss McDonald described as the 19-year-old leader of the pack, and looked him in the eye, Miss McDonald said. Mr. Fleming reacted by pushing Ms. duFresne in the chest with his left hand.
Ms. duFresne stumbled backward, then bounced back and shouted her question again: “What are you going to do, shoot us?”
Mr. Fleming pushed Ms. duFresne a second time, and when she came at him again, he lifted his right arm and fired one bullet, Miss McDonald said.
“He was so mad, he just lift up the gun and shot at her,” Miss McDonald said. “After I saw her grab her chest, I just ran.”
The prosecutor, Eugene Hurley, asked the witness how close Mr. Fleming was to Ms. duFresne when he shot at her.
About two feet away, Miss McDonald replied. “It was pretty close, because he couldn’t even hold up his hand,” she said, noting that Mr. Fleming did not have room to stretch out his arm. “She was blocking the gun.”
Testifying on the fourth day of Mr. Fleming’s murder trial, Miss McDonald admitted that she was part of a group of seven youths that went out after midnight on Jan. 27, 2005, spoiling for a fight and looking for victims.
She was the youngest of the group, at 14.
Now 16 and still in the sixth grade, she said she agreed to cooperate with prosecutors in return for a promise that if her testimony is truthful, they would recommend that a judge clear her criminal record and consider sentencing her to the 10 months she has already served in jail.
The night of the shooting, the seven smoked marijuana in the apartment where two of them lived in the Baruch Houses on the Lower East Side, then went out after midnight to roam the streets, she said. The five young men in the group wanted Miss McDonald and the other girl, Ashley Evans, Mr. Fleming’s girlfriend, “to fight whatever girls we see,” she said.
They spotted a young man wearing a white leather jacket, and Mr. Fleming announced, “I like that jacket; I’m going to get that jacket,” Miss McDonald testified.
Miss McDonald’s boyfriend, Kashawn Boyd, hit the young man so hard that Mr. Boyd’s hand became swollen, but the young man refused to give up his leather jacket and escaped by running into the street and threatening to call the police, she said. That victim, Adam Chavez, testified on Tuesday.
The group then rode the subway to Brooklyn, where they menaced a girl at the Broadway Junction station and a man who scared them away by reaching into his jacket as if he were carrying a gun.
Returning to the Lower East Side about 3 a.m., they spotted Ms. duFresne walking with her fiancé, Jeffrey Sparks, and two friends, Scott Nath and Mary Jane Gibson.
“I’d like to bang on these people right here,” Miss McDonald quoted Mr. Fleming as saying when he spotted the two couples walking on Clinton Street, south of Rivington Street.
Mr. Fleming hit Mr. Sparks in the eye with his gun, then yanked away Ms. Gibson’s purse, tossing it to the two girls, who rifled through it, Miss McDonald said.
Concerned about her fiancé, Ms. duFresne approached Mr. Sparks and said, “Let me see your eye,” while lifting his hand, which was covering his injured eye, Miss McDonald said.
Then she confronted Mr. Fleming, yelling her challenge, and he shot her, the witness said.
“Did you see Rudy slip at all?” Mr. Hurley, the prosecutor, asked, apparently trying to counter suggestions by Mr. Fleming’s defense lawyer, Anthony Ricco, earlier in the trial that the gun went off accidentally.
“No,” Miss McDonald said.
“Did you see her pushing him at all?” Mr. Hurley asked.
“No,” Miss McDonald said.
Would that samaritan's actions count as a DGU?
Edited to add more:
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/04/nyregion/04killing.html
Man Says Youths Accused of Killing Actress Robbed Him That Night
By ANEMONA HARTOCOLLIS
He knew they were trouble as soon as he saw them.
A security guard named Adam Chavez testified yesterday that his internal alarm bells went off as a group of youths in hooded jackets approached him on a darkened sidewalk nearly two years ago, an hour and a half before Nicole duFresne, an actress and playwright, was shot and killed nearby.
Mr. Chavez told the jury at the State Supreme Court in Manhattan that the leader of the group, wearing a white hood and a white scarf wrapped around his face, hit him across the head with a gun because he refused to give up his jacket.
Prosecutors say later that night in January 2005, the same man, Rudy Fleming, shot Ms. duFresne, 28, in the chest, killing her.
“You see the mask, you see the hoodies,” Anthony Ricco, Mr. Fleming’s defense lawyer, said to Mr. Chavez. Would the witness have thought to be on alert, he asked.
“Yes,” replied Mr. Chavez as he was on the stand for the prosecution in Mr. Fleming’s trial for murder.
“He told me to get up out of my jacket,” said Mr. Chavez, who at 22 is slightly older than Mr. Fleming, now 20. “He grabbed me pretty hard. He hit me with something across my face. I pulled my head up and I saw it was in my face. It was a gun.”
Mr. Chavez said he ran screaming into the street in front of a passing taxi, and his assailant let go of him.
Mr. Chavez testified that he called 911 and talked to the police about the attack, which occurred about 1:45 a.m. on Jan. 27, 2005. It was unclear from his testimony whether the police searched for his attackers and why the group was still on the street at 3:15 a.m. when Ms. duFresne, walking with her fiancé and two friends, was killed during a robbery.
The police at the time said Ms. duFresne had demanded of her attacker, “What are you going to do, shoot us?” But so far in the trial, no one has testified to hearing those exact words.
Mr. Ricco, the defense lawyer, has said the shooting was accidental.
Mr. Chavez identified Mr. Fleming by his clothing, a white scarf and a white “hoodie.” Mr. Fleming has refused to attend his own trial.
Mr. Fleming’s godfather, Servino Simmon, testified yesterday that the police found a handgun under a bed at his home on the Lower East Side four days after the shooting. A detective testified that one round had been used; five live bullets remained, and two of them had been nicked, possibly from misfires.
Mr. Simmon, a mover, said he had allowed Mr. Fleming to stay with him before the attack because, “He had no place to go.”
Mr. Simmon’s son, Servisio, 23, and nephew, David, 19, were indicted in the murder with Mr. Fleming and his girlfriend, Ashley Evans, 19. David Simmon pleaded guilty to the attempted robbery of Mr. Chavez and was sentenced to six years in prison. The other two are awaiting trial.
Mr. Simmon began to cry as Mr. Ricco challenged his memory of some details. “If you were going through what I’ve been going through, you wouldn’t even remember your name,” he said. “It’s very sad, yes. If I could change it I would, but I can’t.”
NYC has something like 50,000 police officers for a city of 301 square miles, and even they couldn't do anything about these thugs after they were reported to 911.
