Natavia Lowery, 26, a personal assistant to powerhouse New York real estate broker and punk rock impresario Linda Stein, was charged with second degree murder in Stein's killing on Nov 9.Lowery, who had been working as an assistant to Stein for just four months, admitted to bludgeoning her boss to death with a piece of yoga equipment in her Manhattan apartment after Stein refused to stop blowing marijuana in her face.
From ABC:
The suspect told police that she snapped because of the way Stein was treating her. Lowery "claimed that Stein had been verbally abusive to her," Kelly (New York City Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly) said, "and on the day of the murder had blown marijuana smoke in her face over her objections."Source: ABC Tags:
Lowery told police that Stein would hold a "yoga stick" in a threatening way while she spoke to Lowery, using "profanity" in a "derogatory" way, Kelly said. The assistant ultimately snapped.
"She grabbed the yoga stick from Stein's hands and struck her with it six or seven times," Kelly said, citing from her confession. He described the yoga device as "two sticks that are connected by a cord of some sort" that weighs about 4 pounds.
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