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The Case of Nicholas Allen
📻 Episode #542
🎙️ Hosted by Jason Flom
📅 Sep 11, 2025
About This Episode
On the night of February 4, 2011, Avalisa Morris was shot and killed at a birthday party in the basement of a two-family home in Queens, NY. The fatal gunshots were fired from outside the party, through the closed door of the entrance to the basement. Even though no eyewitnesses placed Allen at the door…
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The Case
On the night of February 4, 2011, Avalisa Morris was shot and killed at a birthday party in the basement of a two-family home in Queens, NY. The fatal gunshots were fired from outside the party, through the closed door of the entrance to the basement. Even though no eyewitnesses placed Allen at the door with a weapon, he was tried under an acting-in-concert theory, and convicted of second‑degree manslaughter and related firearms charges. He was sentenced to 15 years in prison.
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00:04:52“Speaker 1: through both parties on February fifth. But Nicholas was close Speaker 1: with Poochie's boyfriend Gabby Francis, so he made sure he Speaker 1: was at Pooci's. Speaker 2: So when I got there, I was pretty much helping Speaker 2: him decoration, helping, cooking the food, stuff like that. So”
00:18:23“Speaker 2: ONeill Mayors. She never mentioned me at all. It was Speaker 2: at the Grand Jewelry when she mentioned O'Neill and me. Speaker 2: Then in the first trial, Mary Johnson she said, my Speaker 2: hair was basically braided up with rubber bands at the tip, Speaker 2: wearing a jeans jacket with a gray shirt. That's was”
00:31:31“Speaker 2: But the guy that I was bunk with, he was Speaker 3: You know, so we become close. Then he left. Speaker 2: Then no, I was worrying again and be like, oh Speaker 2: my god, I hope I don't get a nasty bunky, Speaker 2: you know, But I got somebody pretty decent. He was”
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