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30 apr 2010




He'll face trial in slaying of dominatrix's lover


Source: www.philly.com  - Philadelphia Daily News - USA


PHILADELPHIA-- "We have a healthy sexual life-style," Shanet Foust, 28, said on the witness stand in a packed courtroom yesterday morning.


"Sometimes we swing," she added in response to pointed questioning by the defense attorney representing Khalif V. Lewis, the man accused of shooting her common-law husband to death at a Southwest Philadelphia hotel last December.

Foust, a self-described escort and dominatrix who uses the name "Jasmine" when advertising for customers on the Craigslist Web site, at times became emotional and shouted at defense attorney Gerald A. Stein during Lewis' preliminary hearing.

Lewis, 26, of 55th Street near Media, West Philadelphia, was ordered to stand trial on murder and three gun charges in the Dec. 17 shooting of Tyre West at the Residence Inn near Philadelphia International Airport.
"Dominatrix, what does that mean?" Stein asked.

"I dominate men," responded Foust, a hefty woman who wore large, silver hoop earrings and an ankle-length black satin dress.

"It's role play," added Foust, who earlier had told Stein she was a college graduate.

"Is that what you majored in?" he asked, drawing laughs from the spectators, most of whom were there awaiting other cases.

Foust said she and West, 28, of Hunting Park, had gone to the hotel to meet Lewis, who had said online that his name was "Marcus."

West went elsewhere when Foust and Lewis were in the hotel room, where they had sex and he paid her $100 before he washed up and left.
A few minutes later, she said, Lewis knocked on the door, and when she opened it he put a gun to her head and forced her to lie on the floor.

"He told me to put my face to the ground. He was trying to kill me," Foust sobbed.

Lewis accused her of stealing an additional $100 from his wallet while he was washing up, and then rifled through her purse, he told police.
While down, Foust said, she used the cell phone she was holding to call West.

He arrived within a minute or two, and as he entered the room was shot once in the chest by Lewis, she said.

West stumbled outside the room, walked downstairs and dropped dead. A gun was found next to his body. Foust testified that he had a permit to carry the weapon.

Stein accused Foust of telling homicide detectives and the court different stories.

At the most, Lewis should be charged with voluntary manslaughter, not murder, he argued to Municipal Judge James M. DeLeon.

Assistant District Attorney Richard Sax argued that Lewis' actions of picking up the bullet shell casing, initially fleeing the scene and throwing the gun and the gun clip in different sewers are evidence of his culpability. "Even if he thought he was relieved of $100 in property, to go back into that room with a loaded 9mm was not a good choice," Sax said after the hearing.

Foust, he added, denied that she had stolen the money. Stein said Lewis had acted in self-defense. "I think [Foust] is going to be shown to be completely incredible," he said. "She has a track record for lying."