Brooklynite Natavia Lowery, assistant to 62-year-old star real-estate broker Linda Stein, is held without bail on charges she beat Stein to death after a confrontation in her boss' Fifth Avenue apartment. Ms. Lowery, 26, had been her assistant for four months.

The medical examiner “says she died of multiple skull fractures, and so we’re going to charge that the death occurred because the defendant hit her six or seven times in the head with a hard object," Barbara Thompson, director of communications for the District Attorney’s office, told The Observer Friday.  read more »