New York Adult Entertainment: Trial continues in prostitute’s killing
Trial continues in prostitute’s killing
FREEHOLD — The defense attorney for a former Asbury Park man on trial for shooting and killing a drug-addicted prostitute outside a Neptune motel in 2006 took the reins of the trial’s direction after prosecutors rested their case Tuesday morning.
David Bass, 57, who was maintaining a Rochester, N.Y. address at the time of the murder, is accused of killing 19-year-old Jessica “Star” Shabazz after hours of smoking crack and drinking inside the motel room with her and another woman, Antoinella Monique Johnson, both of Asbury.
The evening started with Bass and Johnson meeting to buy drugs and booze before stopping off at a dollar store to buy lingerie for both of them to wear once they got to his room at the Crystal Inn on Route 35 in Neptune, but ended after Johnson left to retrieve more drugs and Shabazz brought in Asbury Park drug dealer James Sinclair to sell a cross-dressing Bass about $200 worth of crack cocaine, according to testimony during the trial from various witnesses.