At first, police thought that the death of 26 year old Tiesha Sargeant was a robbery gone bad. She and her boyfriend, Keeve Huggins, were confronted by thieves in the middle of the night at their Flatbush apartment: The thieves had put a sheet over her head and then shot her, taking off with $5,000 and left a gun. At least, that's what Huggins told the police. But now it turns out he dealt pot out of the apartment (he was earlier described as a party promoter), and police wonder if Huggins was the intended target or if it was a "deal gone bad." A police source told the Daily News, "Either way, this young woman was innocent." The Daily News article is particularly dramatic and sad; it notes the irony of how Sargeant was smart and ambitious, whereas her choice in love may have been fatal.
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