A Brooklyn woman is facing life without parole for allegedly hiring a man to kill her husband, and trying to cash in on nearly $900,000 in insurance money, prosecutors said.
When poisoning her husband didn’t work, Alishia Noel-Murray turned to her boyfriend for help getting her spouse out of the picture, asking her lover to find someone to kill Omar Murray in Feb. 2013, officials said.
Noel-Murray, 28, had two problems, and thought she could solve them both at the same time, said Assistant District Attorney Emily Dean during opening statements Monday at Noel-Murray’s murder trial in Brooklyn Supreme Court.
She was having financial difficulties, and she wasn’t getting along with Murray, 37, with whom she shared a 10-month-old son.
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Dean said Noel-Murray devised a plot to take care of both issues. Her persistence paid off, but only partly; her husband was dead, but she never got to cash in on the money.
Noel-Murray tried to poison her husband in Oct. 2012, but that attempt only ended in a trip to the hospital, Dean told jurors. She said Noel-Murray, who was having an affair, urged her boyfriend, Dameon Lovell, to recruit someone to gun her husband down.
Meanwhile, Noel-Murray took out three life insurance policies on her husband totaling $900,000 including one for $150,000 that was taken out just months before Murray’s death.
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The first recruit, a friend of Lovell’s, tried to shoot Murray on Feb. 6, 2013, but missed, Dean said.
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That’s when Lovell and Noel-Murray turned to Kirk Portious, another Lovell friend, and hired him for $3,500.
Murray, an iron worker, was shot to death Feb. 24, 2013 in the couple’s Brownsville home as he returned from a store run. Officials said he was shot with his own gun.
Lovell, 32, copped a plea bargain with prosecutors to testify against his former girlfriend and friend in exchange for 15 years to life in prison.
Noel-Murray and Portious, 28, are on trial together with separate juries.
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“My client went there to beat someone up, not kill,” Portious’ attorney, Damien Brown, said in his opening statements. “You don’t need a large man to shoot.”
After the shots were fired, Noel-Murray, who worked at the Visiting Nurse Service, allegedly called 911 to report an active shooter who didn’t allow emergency workers into the home as “critical minutes” passed to save Murray.
Brown and Noel-Murray’s attorney Wynton Sharpe believe their clients were set up by Lovell who was jealous of Murray.
“The center of their case is Dameon Lovell…he’s lied to everyone from the beginning. He wanted this new lifestyle and Omar was the one in the way,” said Sharpe, adding, “the only crime my client did was being unfaithful…the prosecutors made a deal with the devil.”
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Two days after Murray’s death, Noel-Murray contacted National Benefit Life Insurance which held two separate policies for $530,000 and $200,000,
“She acted as if she didn’t care,” Dean said.
If convicted, Noel-Murray faces life in prison without the possibility of parole and Portious faces 25 years to life in prison.
Real ole Jezebel smfh.
Wicked gal.
What a set of wicked people, from the wife to the lover to the hitman
Shi deserve the death penalty!!! Damn wicked bytch
Parents lost their child, a child is without a father…. All because you decided that it was his time to die????!!!
HOW DARE YOU, you wicked bytch??!!! There is a special place for you
Oh what tangled web we weave, wen we set out to deceive ..all because of greed
smh
Dis thing called the human mind can imagine all sorts of things.
This is no laughing matter, but I must laugh at this peanut brain woman. It’s very rare in this day and age to kill someone and get away scotch free especially when insurance is involved. Big Bertha will know exactly how to fix her for the rest of her life. RIP to the husband.
Smh..Greed and Red eye is a serious serious condition..A mother has lost her son, because of this witch & her son will grow without a father n learn that his mother was the one who killed him..because of what??? Cars, designer clothes n bags…
She will suffer nightmares every night she lay on di ole piece of jail slab for the next 25 or more years…
Pretty devil
A lifetime movie an law and order mi see dem tings yah inna no lie…. but wickedness show all over dah big foo fool gal yah face an demeanor… mi neva understand dis but mi convince seh dem really tink inna dem head seh dem ago get whey wid it.
She deserves her punishment, death too easy. I believe a lot of these hits are set up by spouses.
Agree! There was a time when these Jamaican men use to marry these African-American women and they would take out life insurance policies on them and have them killed. These Jamaican men thought they were using these women to get their green card, not knowing that these women had their own motives. I lost a uncle in such a fashion, killed in NYC back in the 1980s.
She deserves her punishment, death too easy. I believe a lot of these hits are set up by spouses.
That son might not even be for the murdered husband. So first she try to poison the husband, then her first hit, the hit man miss the target and on the third attempt the hit man murdered the husband inside the house and she took her sweet time to open the door, making sure the husband was dead before he received medical assistance.
Now the boyfriend is set to testify against her. No insurance payout and she is set to spend the rest of her life behind bars. A wicked act just because of greed.
Don’t these people watch crime programmes? They always catch dem. Stupid woman.
Lets say for argument sake she got away with i. She would have had no conscience to know she killed the father of her child and was spending blood money. she also thought about it for a long time because months prior she took out more life insurance….Some people just born wicked. All three ah dem heart black… selling your souls for greed.
28 year old with such a wicked heart, she had nothing of value internally. 1.she was cheating on the husband (no loyalty). 2. She took out a life ins.policy for her husband (greedy). 3. Multiple attempts to end his life (wicked). Pretty on the outside and that’s all. Rip huzzy, he was ez on the eyes with a job (someone else would have cherished him)
Remember she is 28 now so the age she was when this occurred speaks to her nature. I remember when this happened and thought about the poor child who was 10 months old now knows neither parent. Even with the 20+ years she can still possibly get out and live a life. Hopefully she is already in jail and not on bail.
NY state doesn’t have death penalty dats why she got life. Dem watch to much TV, she will get what she deserves in prison though. EVIL
she is not jamaican he is