Tuesday, August 17, 2010

Healdsburg, CA: Girlfriend convicted of killing Healdsburg man

Henry K. Lee, Chronicle Staff Writer

Tuesday, August 17, 2010


A Healdsburg woman was convicted of first-degree murder Monday for killing her boyfriend, after jurors rejected her defense that she had been battered by the victim.

Sheyna Douprea, 25, stabbed 46-year-old Daniel Gerard Mooney numerous times in the neck Dec. 14, 2008, at his Mason Street apartment in Healdsburg. Investigators said she had been enraged that Mooney was too drunk to go to his employer's Christmas party with her.

Witnesses testified that Douprea had a history of violent, unpredictable behavior, including gouging people with her fingernails and assaulting her mother's boyfriend with a kitchen knife.

Douprea faces 26 years to life in prison when she is sentenced Sept. 20 in Sonoma County Superior Court.

E-mail Henry K. Lee at hlee@sfchronicle.com.



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