GERRY SMITH
APPLE
PICKING
‘I’M GOING TO DIE’
For Paul Boken, any effort to deter iPhone thieves will come far
too late.
For years, his daughter Megan
owned a BlackBerry, but wanted
an iPhone because she thought it
would make it easier to use social
media and take photos, he said.
Last July, he bought her a white
iPhone at a retail store near the
family’s home outside Chicago.
One month later, Megan, then
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23, was in St. Louis for job interviews as well as an alumni volleyball game at St. Louis University.
Tall, thin and athletic, Megan
had been captain of the volleyball
team the previous year.
As she got into her car that afternoon, a man whom police later
identified as Keith Esters allegedly
opened the passenger-side door
and demanded her iPhone. According to police, Esters shot Megan twice in the chest and neck.
She died in the car. Esters fled the
scene, dropping the stolen iPhone
nearby, prosecutors say. He later
Alex Herald,
20, was
stabbed for
his iPhone
in the Bronx
last year.
The attack
left him
paralyzed
from the
neck down.