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In the early hours of February 4, 1999, an unarmed 23-year-old Guinean student named Amadou Diallo (born September 2, 1975) was fired upon with 41 rounds and shot a total of 19 times by four New York City Police Department plainclothes officers: Sean Carroll, Richard Murphy, Edward McMellon, and Kenneth Boss. Carroll later claimed to have ...
Manhattan, New York City: December 8, 1980: 1: Killer found to be insane 1981 Brink's robbery: Nanuet: October 20, 1981: 3: Robbery Palm Sunday massacre: Brooklyn, New York City: April 15, 1984: 10: Shooting of Eleanor Bumpurs: The Bronx, New York City: October 29, 1984: 1: Botched eviction. NYPD officer acquitted 1984 New York City Subway ...
New York City, New York: 0 2 2: 17-year-old Vincent Rodriguez wounded two students at Martin Luther King, Jr. High School in Manhattan with a semi-automatic pistol. He retaliated against the individuals who had harassed his girlfriend. In February 2003, Rodriguez was sentenced to ten years in prison on charges of assault and attempted assault. [17]
New details are emerging about the case against Luigi Mangione, the man indicted on murder charges in the deadly shooting of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in New York City. The 26-year-old ...
A former U.S. Marine sergeant who used a chokehold to restrain Jordan Neely, a homeless man, on a New York City subway car was found not guilty of criminally negligent homicide on Monday in Neely ...
Abu-Jamal was born Wesley Cook in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where he grew up.He has a younger brother named William. They attended local public schools. In 1968, a high school teacher, a Kenyan man instructing a class on African cultures, encouraged the students to take African or Arabic names for classroom use; he gave Cook the name "Mumia". [10]
The incident sparked fierce criticism of the New York City Police Department from members of the public and drew comparisons to the 1999 killing of Amadou Diallo. [2] Three of the five detectives involved in the shooting went to trial [ 3 ] on charges of first- and second-degree manslaughter , first- and second-degree assault , and second ...
The New York State Education Department announced that it was cancelling the U.S. Government and History Regents Exam because it contained a question that the department determined might be upsetting to students in the aftermath of the shooting. The state did not specify what the question said or why it may have been objectionable.