Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "1984 New York City Subway shooting" in English language version.
After the shootings, there were news reports that the teenagers had approached Goetz with sharpened screwdrivers. But those reports were later found to be untrue. The tools were not sharpened, and the jury heard testimony that the screwdrivers - two of them carried by Cabey, one by Ramseur - were never taken out of their pockets. [And] Goetz, in taped statements, never once mentioned the screwdrivers or any other weapon ....
[Canty:] "As far as I can remember, I walked up to him and asked him, you know, 'Can I have $5?'."
Goetz responded by standing up, pulling out his handgun and firing four shots in rapid succession.
Each of the four thugs had a criminal record, and three were armed with screwdrivers sharpened into daggers.
Under tight security, Bernhard Hugo Goetz was returned ...
After standing up and shooting each of the youths once, Goetz bent over to check each of his victims, the confession said. One of the youths was slumped against a subway seat with no blood visible. Goetz then told police he said, 'You don't look so bad. Here's another,' and fired at him again. That shot missed, police said.
As an article on Gothamist reminds us today, mass shootings in New York City subway history are extremely rare.
The last biggest one before this was almost 40 years ago, the infamous shooting by that writer named Bernhard Goetz in the 1980s.
[Canty:] "As far as I can remember, I walked up to him and asked him, you know, 'Can I have $5?'."
Under tight security, Bernhard Hugo Goetz was returned ...
After the shootings, there were news reports that the teenagers had approached Goetz with sharpened screwdrivers. But those reports were later found to be untrue. The tools were not sharpened, and the jury heard testimony that the screwdrivers - two of them carried by Cabey, one by Ramseur - were never taken out of their pockets. [And] Goetz, in taped statements, never once mentioned the screwdrivers or any other weapon ....
Each of the four thugs had a criminal record, and three were armed with screwdrivers sharpened into daggers.
As an article on Gothamist reminds us today, mass shootings in New York City subway history are extremely rare.
The last biggest one before this was almost 40 years ago, the infamous shooting by that writer named Bernhard Goetz in the 1980s.
