NEW
YORK (Reuters) - Add "The Shoe Murder" to the chronicles of
New York's crimes of passion.
A stormy relationship ended up on a Brooklyn street in the early hours
of Saturday when a 220 pound woman sat on her ex-boyfriend's chest and
clubbed him to death with her size 12 high heeled shoe, police said.
Anna Rhinehart,
40, told authorities she attacked Roosevelt Bonds, 51, in self-defense
after he punched her in the mouth, knocking out her two front teeth.
The passionate
struggle to the death began at 3 a.m. Saturday when Bonds saw Rhinehart
at a restaurant with another man, police said.
"There was
a dispute between them and the man was struck in the head and body
with a blunt instrument," police spokeswoman Det. Carolyn Chew
said.
Rhinehart was
charged with manslaughter and criminal possession of a weapon. "It
was her shoe," Det. Chew said.