Man Dies After Shoe Beating  
   
By Rocco Parascandola
Staff Writer

June 7, 2003, 7:54 PM EDT

A Brooklyn woman was arrested Saturday after her boyfriend died following a fight in which she beat him with a shoe, police said.

Charges against Anna Rhinehart, 40, were pending late Saturday.

Her 51-year-old companion, whose name police withheld pending notification of next of kin, died of chest compression and blunt trauma to the head, neck and torso.

Police said the couple got into an argument on Strauss Street, in Brownsville, at about 2:45 a.m.

It wasn't clear what the argument was about, police said, but it got heated enough that Rhinehart struck the man numerous times in the face and head with a woman's shoe, which was about a size 12. Police said she apparently knocked him to the ground, then straddled him and beat him with the shoe.

Rhinehart is 5-foot-8 and about 220 pounds, and the victim was about 5-foot-9 with an average build, police said.

He was rushed to Brookdale University Hospital Medical Center, where he died at 3:20 a.m.

The couple have a child, but their relationship had been strained, police said. An order of protection, in fact, had been issued against the boyfriend, though it expired Friday.

Also in Brooklyn Saturday, Roosevelt Gilmore, 26, was shot and killed on a Bedford-Stuyvesant street. A 26-year-old man with Gilmore also was shot in the back, but is expected to survive.

Police said the two men were in front of 197 Howard Ave. when an argument broke out, just past 12:45 a.m.

The two victims may not have been involved in the argument, police said, though it wasn't clear if they knew the men who were arguing.

There was a shooting last week near where Gilmore was killed, police said, and the area is known as a spot where drugs are sold. Police, however, had not determined the motive for the killing.

In Manhattan, meanwhile, detectives were trying Saturday to figure out who shot a man found dead near Inwood Hill Park.

A woman walking in the park at 6 a.m. Saturday stumbled across the victim, who looked to be in his early 20s.

BAN SHOES!!!!! there evil and dangerous . You should have to take a test to prove you know how to properly use them. Get a license for them and have to register them not to mention get a permit to even apply to get the license to own them.

Wife is 5'8", 220 lbs.....

He's better off dead.

She didnt miss to many meals did she?

And size 12 shoes!

I loved this part:


Really!?