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Title: One of Bernhard Goetz's muggers kills self on anniversary of subway shoot
Source: NY Post
URL Source: http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/ ... ug_dead_rKrhwXIbt3lWeYJSf2mLHM
Published: Dec 23, 2011
Author: Josh Saul
Post Date: 2011-12-23 14:14:57 by X-15
Keywords: None
Views: 303
Comments: 8

Exactly 27 years to the day after Bernhard Goetz — famous in New York lore as the “Subway Vigilante’’ — shot four young men he thought were threatening him on a train, one of them killed himself by swallowing prescription pills in a low-rent Bronx motel, authorities said.

James Ramseur, 45, was found dead of an apparent overdose at 11:30 a.m. yesterday at the Paradise Hotel at 2990 Boston Road, law-enforcement sources said last night.

He was in bed and fully clothed.

Ramseur had gotten out of prison only 17 months ago, after serving 25 years upstate for raping a young woman on a Bronx rooftop.

The shooting took place on Dec. 22, 1984, when Ramseur, 18, and neighborhood pals Darrell Cabey, Barry Allen and Troy Canty, all 19, were riding a downtown No. 2 train.

As it approached Chambers Street, they encountered Goetz, an electronics specialist. What ensued is in dispute.

Goetz told authorities the intimidating youths demanded $5 from him. The teens insisted they were only panhandling.

Goetz fired five shots from his Smith & Wesson, hitting all of them.

Ramseur was wounded in the arm.

Many residents of the city, which was then undergoing an unprecedented era of street crime, hailed him as a hero.

But since the four youths were black, others called him a racist.

He was convicted of illegally possessing a loaded firearm, but cleared of the more serious charges — four counts of attempted murder.

Cabey, who was paralyzed when Goetz shot him at close range, won a $43 million lawsuit. Goetz declared bankruptcy and hasn’t paid a dime.

Cabey, by far the most seriously injured, still is confined to a wheelchair and functions with the intellect of an 8-year-old.

Allen was convicted of robbery in 1991 and released from prison four years later.

Canty racked up a string of petty offenses and once served 18 months in a residential drug- treatment program.


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He finally did something positive with his life- he ended it.

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#2. To: X-15, Turtle, 4 (#0)

I wrote in Goetz for Mayor in '85.

Jethro Tull  posted on  2011-12-23   14:26:35 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


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LYING AFRICAN

i saw that on the side of a big rig & took a picture of it. it had a lion lying down in the grass next to a pic of obama & said Which is the lying african? haha. i should find that & post it.

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