2 accused of plot to kill parents

An LSU student accused of trying to kill her parents in New Orleans over inheritance money enlisted the help of a fellow student with the promise of $50,000, authorities said Wednesday.

Nathan Andrew Yuhas, 18, of Pennsylvania, was taken into custody at 4:30 p.m. Tuesday after LSU Police and New Orleans police interviewed Yuhas late Monday, university spokesman Ernie Ballard said Wednesday.

Yuhas was with Nicole Lea Boover, 19, of New Orleans, when authorities found her on campus Monday, Ballard said.

According to an arrest warrant from Orleans Parish, New Orleans police responded to a call for help early Monday from an apartment in the 3400 block of Esplanade Avenue.

“The victim stated at or about 4:30 a.m. she heard a tap at her front door. The victim stated she opened the door to find her daughter, Nicole Boover, standing in the hallway,” according to the warrant.

“The victim stated Nicole raised a silver-colored handgun so she immediately shut the front door.

The victim stated Nicole fired three shots into the door before fleeing down the hall toward the stairs,” the warrant said.

The warrant also said Yuhas told police that Nicole Boover asked him to go to New Orleans with her, where she would “murder her parents to get the inheritance and his cut would be $50,000.”

Yuhas admitted to being with Boover when she bought “gloves, duct tape and ‘Scream’ masks,” the warrant says. Yuhas said he and Boover planned to leave the state and “if they were stopped by police, they would be vague with their answers and not admit to what happened,” the warrant says.

Boover’s stepfather called LSU police at 6:30 a.m. Monday shortly after the shots were fired and told them Boover was on her way back to LSU with a “male companion,” who was later identified as Yuhas, Ballard said.

LSU police contacted New Orleans police and confirmed that they were in the process of getting an arrest warrant for Boover, Ballard said.

A short time later, LSU police found Boover’s vehicle, with Yuhas inside, on South Campus Drive, Ballard said. Officers then found Boover in her on-campus residence, Ballard said.

LSU police and New Orleans police searched Boover’s vehicle and residence, and found marijuana in both locations, Ballard said.

Boover, 4617 Richland Ave., New Orleans, was booked into East Baton Rouge Parish Prison and will soon be transported to New Orleans where she will be booked on one count each of attempted first-degree murder and simple possession of marijuana, Ballard said.

Yuhas, 2065 Harts Lane, Conshohocken, Pa., also was booked into East Baton Rouge Parish Prison and will be transported to New Orleans where he will be booked on a count of principal to attempted first-degree murder.

Comments

1) Comment by ultimateliberal - 11/10/2012

No longer LSU students; they are students of prison survival skills. She'll be away for a very long time. He's scared out of his mind and will get leniency for his documented play-by-play account of her scheme. His testimony will be crucial to the guilty verdict. Taking bets...........

2) Comment by jedleland - 11/10/2012

guess what else you can do in most all of these secular states of satan himself a person selling legal alcohol can sell it to another person on a sunday without the government telling them that jesus doesnt approve whoda thunkit? i know in england they have a feeble group called keep sunday special but they have no sway or impact at all with anyone mostly because its just a bunch of maw maws and paw paws and interfering old biddies deciding they know whats best for everyone else on sunday and get yourself back to church young man and cut that hair and turn down that music why its not even music, just noise and in my day.... kinda the same here, really

3) Comment by jedleland - 11/10/2012

this is two fools looking for some easy cash and you can go as far back into history as you want certainly to prechristain periods or into teh dark ages when churches ruled with an iron fist and you can find plenty of idiots ready to commit crimes for some quick cash including popes priests, bishops, ministers, vicars, monks, nuns, imams, rabbis, deacons and true believers of every stripe, its not a religion issue its an idiot issue.

4) Comment by jedleland - 11/10/2012

across the western world secularization has led to more peace not less more stability not less more equality not less. go to holland and enjoy a joint in open public legally or walk by one of the parks they have in public set up for junkies giving out free needles and offering medical attention then look at their voilence and incarceration rates and drop out rates and general crime rates and teen welfare rates and literacy rates. then look at their chruch attendance or affliation over the last 50 years. see a pattern? repeat for belgium, france, germany, sweden, italy, switzerland, ireland, finland, norway, denmark, iceland, new zealand, japan and how many more do you need? sure they have problems with drugs and with youth crime and stuff like that but nowhere near our levels and none of them have set foot in a church in decades. its a false correlation and nice to see in the new poll on cnn yesterday that US religious affiliation continues to plummet now 1 in 3 under 30 rejecting controlling organized churches and as i said its all really about control

5) Comment by jedleland - 11/10/2012

what a load of garbage! standards arent built on myths and if they are then youre in trouble most of europe gave up chrsitain standards decades ago and they have nowhere near the violence we do but get this, the one atrocity they had in recent years that norwegain man killing 75 or so young people was done in the name of his 'cultural chrsitainity' so how does that work? if this the most religious and chiristian country in the developed world by a long way is suffering with so much violence then your idea just falls apart like wet toilet paper its nothing to do with religion or lack of religion or the most relilgious community in the the most christian nation, black americans, wouldnt sufffer as they do. its everything to do with control which is all every religion is about its funny people talk about legalizing drugs being unchristian when religion is the biggest drug of all opium of the masses, dont you know

6) Comment by TommyRucker - 11/10/2012

This is an example of why we 'need' to encourage MORE drug use among young people by LEGALIZING drugs. Whatever problems these young people have, it is not helped by increased drug use. The deterioration of the family over multiple generations secondary to the moving away from Christianity is at the root of these problems. These drugs are only adding fuel to the fire. If we keep moving deeper and deeper into a secularization of our society, problems like this are only going to get worse and more wide spread. Christianity is THE standard, THE bar to shoot for and it has served us well over the past centuries. The deterioration of our society is directly related to our falling away from this standard which has been at the core of our being what we have been. It has taken us awhile to get into this mess and it will take awhile to get out of it but we had better wake up or things are going to get worse and we won't even see the really painful consequences until it is to late (at least most of us won't).

7) Comment by DMJ - 11/10/2012

This is nuts. I see a made for TV movie in the works...

8) Comment by raised.on.robbery - 11/10/2012

I'll try to think of this when I start thinking I have problems. Because, having a kid who's trying to kill you? THAT is a problem.

9) Comment by Bouncer - 11/10/2012

LOL. Only the "best and brightest" at LSU! We have to work hard to keep them in the state after parole....er, graduation.