Queens Woman Fatally Stabs Friend

A 19-year-old woman stabbed her 17-year-old friend in the heart with a steak knife in a Queens apartment building yesterday. Mary Herron is suspected of killing Starsheema Lynn after an argument over "some type of property," police sources told the Times. Cops arrived at Herron's building near the corner of 135th Street and 82nd Avenue at around 12:40 pm and found the victim in a fourth floor hallway with a single wound to her chest. Lynn was rushed to Queens General Hospital, where she died. According to the Post, Herron has been charged with manslaughter and criminal possession of a weapon. This fatal stabbing comes just over a week after another Queens teenager fatally stabbed a man she claimed had forced himself upon her, though sources say the 16-year-old was the aggressor.

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By Ben Muessig in News on January 2, 2010 6:00 PM

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blink

One's dead and the other going to prison? Sounds like win-win to me.

schadenfreudian mensch

Well at least she won the 2nd prize of steak knives instead of getting fired.

adpwnage

Mmmmmm, steak...

MarkTesta

What is this man?

That's not fair we don't expect it.

sell my house fast

Steven

That is what friends are for.

inoyourider

Great that both of these classy ladies will no longer be out amongst the rest of us humans.

bobchadwick

From Mary's Facebook page:

iiM INcREadibLY hARd HEaDeD --YeSs I SaiD It .. WicH SUMtImE gEtS Me in tO troUbLE --aND i adMItT ThAT
SO0 tO ALl ThE peoPLE WHO REalLY LoVE Me... pLEaSe nEvEr tAKe wHAt i sAy AND HoW I FeEl anY SOrT Of wAY--becAuSe I KNO mORe TheN 90 percEnT OF ThE TiiME im wroNg LoL ((WhIcH Is KiND sAd)) -__-

Boogie Down

She sounds like a genius.

Rocknrope

What do you expect from the director of American Psycho?

Snoopy

If mayor Bloomberg would only outlaw knives in the city these fatal stabbings would never had occurred.

WE NEED STRICTER KNIFE LAWS IN THIS CITY!

whitecastlerock

They lacked a humane education-yet another Bloomberg fail

ed_Extinct

sickening

babyhitler

I bet you she killed over a pizza slice or something petty like that. crime of passion: you're doing it wrong.

Snoopy

I know it might be a bit early, but are there any images of the victim, Starsheema Lynn? Was she Asian or Italian?

rip star we love u

wow she was my friend she told me wen ppl die everybody talks she she was rite .....she was a loving person none of u know her she was only 17 wen u was 17 life was good well wake up call now she dont got a life her mom wasd a dum bitch that made life hard for her so wat ever she was fighting over it was something she needed cuz everything she had she got it for her self mary is fucked up and i pray she will never see the light ov day !!!!!!!!!