Police: Woman plotted man's death for revenge

Jessica Nichols was charged with murder and conspiracy to commit murder in the shooting death of Daron Green. She is being held in lieu of $1 million bond pending a hearing on probable cause in Superior Court Sept. 23. less Jessica Nichols was charged with murder and conspiracy to commit murder in the shooting death of Daron Green. She is being held in lieu of $1 million bond pending a hearing on probable cause in Superior Court ... more Photo: Contributed Photo Photo: Contributed Photo Image 1 of / 1 Caption Close Police: Woman plotted man's death for revenge 1 / 1 Back to Gallery

BRIDGEPORT -- Jessica Nichols could be patient. Her revenge would come.

In February, Nichols, 23, and her boyfriend, Aaron Kearney, were bagging $3,000 in heroin in their Stratford home when two masked men burst in, according to police. The robbers stole the couple's heroin, their cell phone and on the way out one of them pulled up Nichols' shirt and groped her, police said.

The couple didn't file a complaint with police. Instead, police said, Nichols apparently decided to handle the situation in her own way.

Later that night, police said Nichols sent a text message to the stolen cell phone in an attempt to communicate with the robbers. She received a response from one of the men, who agreed to meet with her.

Police said Nichols went to the meeting alone. They said when she returned, she told Kearney that she had met with the man who assaulted her, Daron Green, and Green had agreed to give her back three bundles of the heroin worth about $300 and the cell phone. What Nichols didn't tell Kearney, police said, is that Nichols had established a sexual relationship with Green.

Over the next four months, police said the relationship between Green and Nichols flourished. They said Nichols even agreed to have a threesome with Green and another woman, something that Green was seeking for some time. Friends told police Green bragged that Nichols wanted to have a sexual relationship with him after he had assaulted her during the robbery. And all the time, Nichols was allegedly plotting her revenge.

On the night of June 22, Nichols picked up Green in Kearney's car. Police said Green just thought they were going to "chill," But in the backseat of the car was a loaded handgun. Then Nichols casually told Green she had to pick up a friend.

Police said they picked up an as yet unidentified man who got into the backseat of the car. As they drove along Blackman Street, police said the unidentified man shot Green in the head. They dumped the body at the corner of Denver Avenue and Denver Court.

Police said Nichols later told Kearney the whole story.

Kearney asked Nichols, "You had this guy on the hook this whole time?" "Yeah," police said Nichols replied.

Nichols was later arrested and charged with murder and conspiracy to commit murder. She is being held in lieu of $1 million bond pending a hearing on probable cause in Superior Court Sept. 23.