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Alcohol, Nightclubs and College Students: A Lethal Cocktail
than its share of violent acts against young women after a night on the town. An examination of recent crime
statistics shows that New York City is at its safest in recent memory. However, the discovery of another dead
student suggests that it is not very safe for young women drinking in nightclubs and bars late at night.
This latest victim of New York City night life is Jennifer Moore, 18-year old, of Harrington Park, New Jersey.
Jennifer Moore was murdered just ive months after a female graduate student went missing after leaving a
popular bar in SoHo. The student, Imette St. Guillen 24, had been drinking alone, in a bar called the Falls,
until closing time. Her naked body was discovered the next day wrapped in a quilt in a swampy area near Belt
Parkway in Brooklyn New York. Darryl Littlejohn 41, a bouncer employed at the Falls a career criminal, had
been charged with the murder. Draymond Coleman, 34, another career criminal, and a pimp is accused of
beating and strangling Jennifer Moore to death inside a Weekhawken hotel. Her body was found in a trash bin in
a parking lot, in a squalid area in New Jersey across the Hudson River, West New York.
Further research and we ind other cases of similar circumstances involving alcohol and the murder of young
women. Last October, Tabitha Perez, a 24 year old saleswoman from the Bronx, was shot and killed outside the
Viva a bar in upper Manhattan. In April, a 21- year-old woman from Newark, New Jersey, Jessica Martinez,
was struck by a car while crossing the West Side Highway after leaving a nearby nightclub where she had been
drinking. Another New Jersey college student, Mark Fisher, 19, was killed in 2003 after a night of partying in
Manhattan and Brooklyn, ending with him alone among strangers, two of whom were convicted in the robbery
and murder.
According to recent studies, New York City has been under the spotlight due to a sharp increase in bars and
nightclubs, but a greater number of homicides occur in other boroughs. Shootings on Saturday nights outside
nightclubs in less afluent neighborhoods in Queens, Brooklyn, and the Bronx is a regular occurrence.
Andrew Karmen, a sociology professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, said that “the drug most
implicated with violence is alcohol.” Being under the inluence of alcohol has been shown numerous times to
raise the risk of being either a victim or an offender.
Dr. William Smith is a psychologist and personal consultant with over 30 years experience
working with groups and individuals. Dr. Smith had many successes working, online, with
Adult Children of Alcoholic, Survivors of Incest, and other Sexual Trauma, Relationship Prob-
lems...Including all forms of quality of life issues. If you have a very personal issue that you
feel professional consultation is needed...Dr. Smith is the professional to contact at:
[http://insightconsultant.com]
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than its share of violent acts against young women after a night on the town. An examination of recent crime
statistics shows that New York City is at its safest in recent memory. However, the discovery of another dead
student suggests that it is not very safe for young women drinking in nightclubs and bars late at night.
This latest victim of New York City night life is Jennifer Moore, 18-year old, of Harrington Park, New Jersey.
Jennifer Moore was murdered just ive months after a female graduate student went missing after leaving a
popular bar in SoHo. The student, Imette St. Guillen 24, had been drinking alone, in a bar called the Falls,
until closing time. Her naked body was discovered the next day wrapped in a quilt in a swampy area near Belt
Parkway in Brooklyn New York. Darryl Littlejohn 41, a bouncer employed at the Falls a career criminal, had
been charged with the murder. Draymond Coleman, 34, another career criminal, and a pimp is accused of
beating and strangling Jennifer Moore to death inside a Weekhawken hotel. Her body was found in a trash bin in
a parking lot, in a squalid area in New Jersey across the Hudson River, West New York.
Further research and we ind other cases of similar circumstances involving alcohol and the murder of young
women. Last October, Tabitha Perez, a 24 year old saleswoman from the Bronx, was shot and killed outside the
Viva a bar in upper Manhattan. In April, a 21- year-old woman from Newark, New Jersey, Jessica Martinez,
was struck by a car while crossing the West Side Highway after leaving a nearby nightclub where she had been
drinking. Another New Jersey college student, Mark Fisher, 19, was killed in 2003 after a night of partying in
Manhattan and Brooklyn, ending with him alone among strangers, two of whom were convicted in the robbery
and murder.
According to recent studies, New York City has been under the spotlight due to a sharp increase in bars and
nightclubs, but a greater number of homicides occur in other boroughs. Shootings on Saturday nights outside
nightclubs in less afluent neighborhoods in Queens, Brooklyn, and the Bronx is a regular occurrence.
Andrew Karmen, a sociology professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, said that “the drug most
implicated with violence is alcohol.” Being under the inluence of alcohol has been shown numerous times to
raise the risk of being either a victim or an offender.
Dr. William Smith is a psychologist and personal consultant with over 30 years experience
working with groups and individuals. Dr. Smith had many successes working, online, with
Adult Children of Alcoholic, Survivors of Incest, and other Sexual Trauma, Relationship Prob-
lems...Including all forms of quality of life issues. If you have a very personal issue that you
feel professional consultation is needed...Dr. Smith is the professional to contact at:
[http://insightconsultant.com]
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