I am on my way back from Italy (at London’s Heathrow airport) and got several emails pointing to this grisly murder of New York real estate agent and former punk rock manager Linda Stein. The New York Times reported:
The assistant, Natavia S. Lowery, 26, of Brooklyn, said she was
driven to violence by the victim herself, who, she said, treated her
poorly, “just kept yelling at her” and even made her ill by blowing
marijuana smoke in her face, officials said.
Finally, Ms. Lowery
told detectives, she bashed Ms. Stein six or seven times in the back of
the head on Oct. 30 with what she called a yoga stick after Ms. Stein,
62, made a racially demeaning remark, other law enforcement officials
said.
“Lowery, who had been Stein’s personal assistant for
approximately four months, claimed that Stein had been verbally abusive
to her,” Police Commissioner Raymond W. Kelly said at a news conference yesterday at 1 Police Plaza.
It sounds like a sad mess. If Ms. Lowery is guilty, her actions are indefensible, but that is a moral judgment. When people feel trapped and belittled, they can do awful things.
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