Re: Ex-Bouncer Guilty of Kidnapping College Student in Queens


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http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/24/nyregion/24bouncer.html?ref=nyregion

Ex-Bouncer Guilty of Kidnapping College Student in Queens

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published: October 23, 2008

A former Manhattan nightclub bouncer was convicted on Thursday of
kidnapping a York College student.
The bouncer, Darryl Littlejohn, 44, was convicted by a jury in State
Supreme Court in Queens. He could be sentenced to as much as 25 years
to
life in prison. He also faces trial in the 2006 murder of Imette St.
Guillen, a student at John Jay College of Criminal Justice.
In the kidnapping case, the authorities said that Mr. Littlejohn posed
as a police officer and handcuffed the York College student, Shanai
Woodward, as she walked home from classes in Queens in October 2005.
The authorities said he forced Ms. Woodward into the back seat of his
van, but she escaped.
Mr. Littlejohn's lawyer, Jason Russo, said that his client planned to
appeal. He said the trial was unfair because of news reports about Ms.
St. Guillen's killing.
Ms. St. Guillen's body was found bound and strangled in Brooklyn in
February 2006, a day after she had visited a bar in SoHo where Mr.
Littlejohn worked.


44 yrs old, I wonder if these are his first? Seems like he should have
had
some earlier *crimes*, 'eh?

IIRC, Darryl Littlejohn has been in prison for most of his adult life.

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/24/nyregion/24suspect.html


Ah, thanks. I'd forgotten his history. Still seems like he would have
had time for a few more during his releases.

td

This crime resonated with me because of young relatives living in Manhattan.
This man was way too much of a risk to be working in that bar. I think about
Imette every once in awhile and wondered if he'd finally been tried and
convicted. Was glad when his DNA was ID'd early on, and now it's good that
at least he's convicted of this one. Now on to Imette. What a waste, such a
shame. Well, they all are, but some more than others (depending on our own
private circumstances, and how we view the world...).

jc


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