JERSEY CITY — The New York City woman charged with shooting her ex-boyfriend in the head with his own gun in 2014 is slated to go on trial next week.
Cheryl Nisbett, 40, is charged with murdering Robert Ashbourne, 46, of Mt. Vernon, New York inside his car on Aug. 5, 2014. After he was shot, Ashbourne’s car cruised through the intersection of Waverly Street and Palisade Avenue in the Heights section of Jersey City, smashing into a parked vehicle.
Nisbett’s trial will begin Tuesday before Hudson County Superior Court Judge John Young in the Hudson County Administration Building in Jersey City.
Witnesses thought Ashbourne had been knocked out by the collision when he was found in the driver’s seat of the vehicle, but emergency responders found Ashbourne alone in the car and bleeding from the gunshot wound. He was pronounced dead at the scene, officials said.
A Hudson County grand jury indicted Nisbett in June 2015 and she was taken into custody in New York without incident a week later. She fought extradition to New Jersey for several months before making her first appearance on the murder charge in October 2015.
The father of nine children, Ashbourne worked as a limo driver, sometimes chauffeuring for celebrities, including Jay-Z, Busta Rhymes, Beyonce, Queen Latifah and Patti LaBelle, according to his daughter, Krystle Clarke.
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