Just weeks after 19-year-old University student Nicole Boover was arrested for allegedly trying to murder her mother on Oct. 8, she was arrested again Friday for theft and unauthorized use of a debit card.
She has since been suspended from the University, LSU Police Department spokesman Capt. Cory Lalonde said.
Attempted murder wasn’t Boover’s only crime Oct. 8. Also that day, her Evangeline Hall roommate reported to LSUPD that $70 and her debit card were missing from her wallet, Lalonde said.
After further investigation, officers determined the stores where the suspect attempted to use the card, and by looking at surveillance cameras, they determined that Boover was the culprit.
LSUPD officers obtained a warrant for Boover’s arrest, and with help of the Jefferson Parish Sheriff’s Office, they arrested her in Jefferson Parish.
Officers brought Boover back to Baton Rouge where she was booked in East Baton Rouge Parish Prison.
An even stranger twist in the case happened Oct. 24 when Boover and her mother appeared holding hands in a New Orleans court, The Times-Picayune reported.
Sherri Boover, Nicole’s mother, took the stand asking the court to repeal the stay-away order put in place against Boover since she was released from jail on bail Oct. 18.
Sherri Boover said she was no longer afraid of her daughter, and the order was lifted.
Boover is expected to stay with her father for the time being.
Boover was initially arrested Oct. 8 after she tried to shoot her mother with a handgun around 4:30 a.m. at her mother’s New Orleans residence. Boover fled from New Orleans to Baton Rouge, where she was arrested in her Evangeline Hall residence hall room.
Inheritance money appeared to be the motive.
Around 4:30 p.m. that same day, LSUPD arrested environmental engineering student Nathan Andrew Yuhas, 18, of 2065 Harts Lane in Conshohocken, Pa., for principal attempted first-degree murder.
Boover offered Yuhas $50,000 to help her, according to court reports.