Posted on 11/09/2007 12:00:25 PM PST by khnyny
A personal assistant of famed realtor Linda Stein has been arrested in her slaying, police officials said today.
Police arrested Natavia Lowery, who worked for Stein at Prudential Douglas Elliman, after she made statements that implicated her in the murder, a police department spokesman, Deputy Commissioner Paul Browne, said.
Stein, a former manager for the punk rock band, The Ramones, who parlayed her links to celebrities into a lucrative real estate career that included clients such as Sting and Madonna, was bludgeoned to death on October 30th inside her multimillion-dollar Fifth Avenue apartment.
Ms. Lowery is alleged to have hit Stein over the head several times with a piece of exercise equipment called a Pilate stick, a lawyer for Stein's daughter Mandy Stein, Edward Hayes, said. The city's medical examiner has attributed the death to blunt force trauma.
"I've never heard of one woman beating another woman to death, and I was in homicide during the height of the crime wave," Mr. Hayes said.
During interrogations, Ms. Lowery, an African American, told investigators she had become enraged that Stein had made a racist comment toward her, sources said.
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In NY State, I believe, first degree murder is specifically when law enforcement personnel are the victims.
You must not have paid attention to the outrage in Jena then. Plenty thought it was justifiable homicide.
Anyone have a hunch that this relationship was all about who was hitting on who?
Paging Ron Kuby!
Kuby, in case anybody doesn't know, is the radical lawyer who INVENTED the "black rage defense."
Kuby, along with his mentor William Kunstler planned to use this defense for Colin Ferguson, the Caribbean immigrant who murdered several innocent white commuters the Long Island Railroad.
The "black rage defense" didn't get a work-out since Ferguson fired Kuby and Kunstler and finished the trial pro se, without using that defense (he claimed he was not the shooter).
Btw, Kuby should have plenty of free time now that he's been fired as a talk show host from WABCradio.
The "killed with a Pilates stick" reminds me of some old Christine Lavin lyrics, from "Cold Pizza for Breakfast,"
"Yeah yeah Herman was healthy, but Herman is dead...."
And,
"Jean Peters is behind bars looking quite saaaad, but thin! (do you see what I'm getting at, you tend to kill when you're skinny, and not when you're fat.)"
Ahh, so I take it that your book is NOT the Q'ran, then??
If she said “nappy headed” or used the “N” word, well she deserved to die...../sarc.
As Larry the cable guy would say....”now that’s funny!!!”
uh...European bankers.
It will hit the news soon that what set her off was blowing marijuana smoke in her face at least a couple of times over her objections and then being prodded with that exercise stick. All done by the verbally abusive employer
lol
You are right. I didn’t pay any attention to what happened in Jena. The race baiters got there and the lame stream media made a big thing out of it to boot. I figured out that what I was seeing was probably propaganda so I didn’t watch any of the coverage.
Yes, yes, it’s funny.
It’s ALLLL fun and games until someone losses an eye. ;-)
Something tells me her lawyer has been itching to try this particular defense.
Very perceptive.
Watch the Rev. Al jump into action.
When the Rev. Al Sharpton jumps in.
Looks like she got hit in the head with the ugly stick.
1st degree is for cop killing or hired guy murders.
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