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  • Destrehan teacher arrested for reported sexual relationship with student [ Louisiana]

    10/01/2014 1:31:50 PM PDT · by george76 · 39 replies
    WDSU ^ | Oct 01, 2014 | Juan Sanchez
    DESTREHAN, La. —Authorities in St. Charles Parish arrested a 34-year-old teacher Tuesday afternoon on allegations of sexual misconduct with a student. Deputies placed Shelley Dufresne under arrest for one count of carnal knowledge of a juvenile. She is a teacher at Destrehan High School, located west of New Orleans. ... Officials with the St. Charles Parish Public School District reported the incident to the Sheriff's Office. Investigators were told that the student was bragging to other students that he was "having a sexual relationship with teachers." "An additional incident has allegedly occurred in another jurisdiction and that agency is participating...
  • Criminal family twist: Suspect shot dead (with own gun)

    07/15/2008 9:03:43 PM PDT · by Drew68 · 56 replies · 289+ views
    NY Daily News ^ | 09 July 08 | ALISON GENDAR AND TAMER EL-GHOBASHY
    A 21-year-old Staten Island man from a family of convicts was shot and killed Tuesday, apparently with his own gun while trying to rob someone, police sources said. Grant Fleming was shot on the fifth floor of a building in the Richmond Terrace Houses on Jersey St. but was able to stumble to the lobby, where he collapsed about 2 a.m., cops said. Fleming, whose brother Rudy Fleming, 23, is serving a life sentence for gunning down actress Nicole duFresne in 2005 on the lower East Side, was taken to Richmond University Medical Center, where he died from the gunshot...
  • Angry dad gives up teen in Nicole slay (NYC Model murder)

    CHELTENHAM, Md. - Ex-NYPD cop Wayne Evans was in agony yesterday after he handed over his 18-year-old daughter to detectives who charged her in one of New York's most shocking recent murders. When Ashley Evans showed up for a spur-of-the-moment weekend visit, her father didn't know anything about the trouble she was fleeing. It wasn't until Tuesday - when NYPD cops called seeking to question her in the lower East Side slaying of actress Nicole duFresne - that the former lawman was forced to confront his daughter. He told her to cooperate with cops, having no idea she would soon...
  • NICOLE DIED FOR SMILING

    03/02/2005 6:21:51 AM PST · by COUNTrecount · 56 replies · 2,592+ views
    NY Post ^ | Mar. 2, 2005 | Laura Italiano
    March 2, 2005 -- Her happiness doomed her. Slain actress Nicole duFresne had a smile on her face as she strolled a Lower East Side street after a night of partying — and it was her smile, and those of her friends, that made them targets, according to a stunning new confession. DuFresne's happiness was like grit in the eye of cheerleader-turned-murder defendant Ashley Evans, who strolled the streets with a pack of friends. So Evans singled the group out — ultimately, for murder.
  • A Murder Made for the Front Page (how a random murder victim becomes a household name)

    02/09/2005 11:05:02 AM PST · by dead · 4 replies · 706+ views
    Village Voice ^ | February 8th, 2005 | Jarrett Murphy
    When Nicole duFresne died, man bit dog and ink flowed The Sunday before Nicole duFresne became famous, the New York Police Department reported 35 murders in the city so far this year. By week's end, there'd be 41. Some made the papers. Eric Dunning was killed by an ex-con. Juan Jimenez died in a hit-and-run. Fausto Lachapel was gunned down in a lobby. But none were front-page fodder, day after day, like duFresne. She had the unique characteristics of being white, beautiful, and murdered. It wasn't just any murder. It was a random crime, committed by an apparently clueless perp,...
  • Blazing Tribute (New Age Memorial to Actress)

    02/04/2005 10:25:09 AM PST · by CharlesI · 17 replies · 669+ views
    New York Post ^ | Feb 4, 2005 | MARK BULLIET and ANDY GELLER
    BLAZING TRIBUTE By MARK BULLIET and ANDY GELLER The silhouette of Nicole duFresne burned brightly last night on the Lower East Side corner where her shooting star of a life was snuffed out by a gunman's bullet. With drums, candles, incense and heavy hearts, some 200 friends said goodbye to the 28-year-old actress at a unique and poignant memorial service. It began with mourners marching to the corner of Clinton and Rivington streets, where duFresne was shot in the chest during a mugging at 3 a.m. Jan. 27. Four men twirled balls burning on the ends of chains during the...
  • Victim's Beau: Why hide? (Says slay suspect shouldn't have fled)

    02/04/2005 2:46:58 PM PST · by NYC GOP Chick · 53 replies · 1,447+ views
    NY Daily News ^ | 2.4.2005 | TAMER EL-GHOBASHY, ROBERT GEARTY and ALISON GENDAR
    The high school cheerleader who allegedly hid the stolen handgun used to kill actress Nicole duFresne never should have covered up for the murderer, the actress' heartbroken fiancé said yesterday. "She didn't have to flee the state, hide the gun and take on another person's crime in the way that she did," 29-year-old Jeffrey Sparks said of Ashley Evans, who went to her father's Maryland home after the crime. "She could have come forward. She didn't have to hide out," Sparks said before a memorial ceremony on the lower East Side to honor the woman he had planned to marry...
  • NYC Actress' Slaying Teaches Hard Crime Lesson

    NYC Actress' Slaying Teaches Hard Crime Lesson By TOM HAYS, AP NEW YORK (Feb. 4) - As an actress, Nicole duFresne had roles in dozens of way-off-Broadway productions. But it was an unfortunate real-life line witnesses say duFresne uttered before her slaying - "What are you going to do, shoot us?'' - that has brought her to the public's attention. Authorities have refused to speculate whether the 28-year-old actress and playwright's defiant stand against a bandit prompted him to shoot her to death last week on a New York City street. Safety advocates, however, have cited the case as a...
  • Lessons From NYC Actress' Death (Nicole duFresne shouldn't have taunted mugger...)

    02/03/2005 6:00:06 PM PST · by Gondring · 271 replies · 3,823+ views
    CBS News ^ | February 3, 2005 | Tom Hays
    As an actress, Nicole duFresne had roles in dozens of way-off-Broadway productions. But it was an unfortunate real-life line witnesses say duFresne uttered before her slaying — "What are you going to do, shoot us?" — that has brought her to the public's attention. Authorities have refused to speculate whether the 28-year-old actress and playwright's defiant stand against a bandit prompted him to shoot her to death last week on a New York City street. "Regardless of what the victim said or did not say, the person responsible for her death is the one who pulled the trigger," Police Commissioner...
  • NEW NICOLE BUST

    02/03/2005 2:53:33 PM PST · by ConservativeStatement · 77 replies · 3,786+ views
    The New York Post ^ | February 3, 2005 | JEREMY OLSHAN, MURRAY WEISS and TODD VENEZIA
    February 3, 2005 -- A high-school cheerleader was charged with murder yesterday for participating in the Lower East Side street attack that killed aspiring actress Nicole duFresne last week, cops said. (Linda) DuFresne, who spoke from her home in Minnesota, said she hopes her daughter's death will convince people to think more seriously about enacting stronger gun-control laws.
  • Parolee, 19, Is Held in Death Of Actress During Robbery

    01/31/2005 8:08:42 PM PST · by 68skylark · 162 replies · 3,252+ views
    New York Times ^ | February 1, 2005 | MICHAEL WILSON and JANON FISHER
    A 19-year-old parolee who was prowling with childhood friends on the Lower East Side early on Thursday morning has been charged with murdering a young actress who talked back to them as they robbed her companions, the police said yesterday. The police said that the arrest of the man, Rudy Fleming, came after detectives received tips from people who had heard that he and at least four friends were involved in the shooting. Yesterday afternoon, Mr. Fleming was openly weeping in the back seat of an unmarked car as detectives drove him away from the offices of the Manhattan South...
  • CAUGHT

    02/01/2005 8:06:36 AM PST · by ConservativeStatement · 50 replies · 2,289+ views
    The New York Post ^ | February 1, 2005 | MURRAY WEISS and DAN MANGAN
    February 1, 2005 -- Police yesterday busted a paroled teen punk who allegedly shot aspiring actress Nicole duFresne — but the crybaby put on his own performance, moaning and complaining that he was sick, while taking no responsibility for the coldblooded slaying. Rudy Fleming, 19, "was whining like a little girl," a law-enforcement source scoffed. "I don't feel good," the hood complained, lolling his head and pretending to be dizzy as detectives tried to question him.
  • COPS QUIZ THREE IN ACTRESS SLAY

    01/31/2005 12:34:13 AM PST · by nickcarraway · 14 replies · 783+ views
    New York Post ^ | January 31, 2005 | LARRY CELONA
    Cops early today were questioning three teenage suspects in the shooting of actress and playwright Nicole DuFresne, senselessly slain by a mugger on the Lower East Side, The Post has learned. The boys, two 18-year-olds and a 16-year-old, admitted they were there when DuFresne was murdered, police sources said. The suspected gunman, a 19-year-old man, was still at large — but cops know who he is, according to the sources. The three being grilled at the Seventh Precinct were among six young people who tried to mug DuFresne, her fiancé, Jeffrey Sparks, and another couple, Scott Nath and Mary Jane...
  • Fiance of murdered actress disproves Churchill

    01/28/2005 3:32:24 PM PST · by Borges · 131 replies · 3,852+ views
    Ny Times ^ | 1/28/05 | MICHAEL WILSON
    Mr. Sparks (her fiance) said Ms. duFresne was strongly against capital punishment, and would have felt some sympathy for her young attacker. "This isn't about some bad, murdering criminal," he said. "It's about a culture that makes it so easy for kids to have guns."
  • KILLERS

    01/29/2005 2:58:45 AM PST · by Pharmboy · 67 replies · 1,912+ views
    NY Post ^ | 1-29-05 | MURRAY WEISS and RICH CALDER
    January 29, 2005 -- These are the thugs cops are seeking in connection with the senseless murder of an aspiring actress and playwright gunned down on a Lower East Side street in a botched robbery. Cops believe the white-hooded man fired the single fatal shot into Nicole DuFresne's chest. The bullet pierced the Minnesota native's heart and a lung, police sources said. Police yesterday released images from a surveillance camera showing five men and two women walking a block from where, just five minutes later, DuFresne, 28, was killed at Clinton and Rivington streets.
  • ACTRESS SLAIN

    01/28/2005 5:41:03 AM PST · by Pharmboy · 574 replies · 16,161+ views
    NY Post ^ | January 28, 2005 | MURRAY WEISS, PATRICK GALLAHUE and RICH CALDER
    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....