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The contest for models to represent the onlineKurvacious Boutiquethat pitched fashion to women with “Kurves, Klass & Konfidence” caught the eye of Naire’ McCormick, who entered and won to become the2018 face of the brand.
But the 44-year-old single mom’s future modeling aspirations and other dreams died with her on Sunday, when police say she was the victim of a murder-suicide at the hands of her boyfriend in her Brooklyn apartment, reports theNew York Daily News.
McCormick, who also worked since 2004 as an NYPD school safety officer, “was a loving, outgoing soul (whose) life was taken too soon,” her friend Shateama Vasquez told the newspaper. “She had a heart of gold. … Nobody have nothing bad to say about her. Her personality is what drew you to her.”
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The 911 caller heard screams, reportsNews 12 Brooklyn.
Inside the apartment, McCormick and her boyfriend, 47-year-old Jancy Dempster, had been celebrating Dempster’s birthday, with Dempster drinking heavily, police sources told theNew York Post.
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Dempster’s cousin and McCormick’s 12-year-old son were in another room apart from the couple, those sources told the outlet, when gunshots rang out.
Responding officers found McCormick and Dempster, “both unconscious and unresponsive, each with a gunshot wound to the head,” inside McCormick’s bedroom, police said.
Both were declared dead at the scene, and a gun was recovered. Police subsequently labeled the death of McCormick as a homicide, and said the investigation is continuing.
“We extend our heartfelt sympathy and prayers to her family,” Gregory Floyd, president of the union thatrepresents school safety officers in the city’s public schools, said in a statement Monday, according to thePost.
His statement called McCormick’s death “tragic.”
source: people.com
