Plot wife had policy on new guy
A BROOKLYN woman on trial for pulling together a plot to kill her husband in order to pocket $900,000 in insurance claims, remarried and took a policy out on her new spouse.
“Ms. Noel, you remarried in September 2014, correct?” asked Assistant District Attorney Emily Dean on cross-examination of Alishia Noel-Murray, who took the stand in her defense on Tuesday.
Noel-Murray, 29, admitted that less than a year after her husband Omar Murray was gunned down in their Lott Ave. house in Brownsville, she started dating another man and tied the knot the following year.
“Did you take out any insurance policies on him (your new husband)?” Dean asked as Noel-Murray confirmed she did before the judge sustained her attorney’s objection.
In February 2013, Noel-Murray allegedly confided in her lover Dameon Lovell, that she needed Murray killed in order to cash in on three insurance policies and clear up her debts.
Lovell, 33, testified against Noel-Murray in Brooklyn Supreme Court, saying that he brokered a deal with Kirk Portious to pay him $3,500 to complete the job.
Portious, 28, is also on trial. If convicted, he faces 25 years to life in prison. POLICE-SHOOTING victim Philando Castile’s girlfriend, terrified a Minnesota cop might blast her next, decided to live-stream her lover’s dying minutes.
A weeping Diamond Reynolds, during her second day of testimony Tuesday, identified Officer Jeronimo Yanez as the shooter before explaining her instinctive choice to air the aftermath via Facebook.
“Because I knew that the people are not protected against the police,” she told the jury. “I wanted to make sure if I died in front of my daughter that people would know the truth.”
Reynolds was a passenger in Castile’s car before the routine July 6 traffic stop for a broken taillight in a Minneapolis suburb.
Reynolds broke down on the stand while describing her slain boyfriend’s clothing on the day of his death.
Asked by prosecutor Clayton Robinson to recount Castile’s last words, she regrouped and replied evenly, “I can’t breathe.”
Yanez, 29, faces charges of manslaughter and dangerous discharge of a firearm in the shooting death of Castile. Reynolds took the stand shortly after opening statements in the trial Monday.