Nicole DuFresne was 28 when she was shot and killed on January 27, 2005, on Clinton Street in Manhattan’s Lower East Side. She had been out with her fiancé and another couple after finishing a bartending shift. A group of seven people confronted them intending to rob them; the assailants had already carried out another robbery earlier that night. During the confrontation, Rudy Fleming, then 19, pistol-whipped DuFresne’s fiancé. When DuFresne challenged Fleming, he shot her in the chest; she died at the scene in her fiancé’s arms.

Fleming was arrested and, on October 12, 2006, convicted by a jury of first-degree murder, robbery, and weapons possession; he was sentenced to life without parole. Fleming’s girlfriend, Ashley Evans, pleaded guilty to first-degree robbery and received a six-year sentence. Servisio Simmons pleaded guilty to first-degree robbery and was sentenced to ten years. Several younger members of the group were charged in Family Court.

Does anyone have new details about that night or about Nicole’s life and work as an actress and playwright that could add context to her story?