Word: goetze
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...wrote a song in his honor ("I'm not going to give you my pay/ Try and take it away/ Come on, make my day/ They call him the vigilante"). The red-bereted Guardian Angels jingled canisters in front of subway straphangers, collecting for his defense. But Bernhard Hugo Goetz, the 37-year-old electronics expert who shot four black teen-agers in a New York City subway car last month, refused to cooperate with the makers of his blossoming legend. Spurning all offers of financial aid, he gave a single, halting interview to the New York Post last week...
After six days in jail, charged with attempted murder and possession of a weapon, Goetz made bail with $50,000 of his own money. Stopping in at his cluttered downtown apartment, he asked a handyman to remove a WELCOME HOME BERNIE banner and a collection box for his defense fund that had been installed in the building's lobby by his fellow tenants. Pursued by several reporters and photographers, Goetz drove through the Holland Tunnel to a shopping center in Union...
...days after visiting the bookstore, Bernhard Hugo Goetz, 37, ended his nine-day flight from justice. Since pulling out a silver revolver on a subway and pumping bullets into four teen-agers who asked him if he had $5--leaving one of them partly paralyzed--Goetz had driven to New Hampshire in a rented car, returned to New York for one day, then taken off again in yet another rented car. On a crisp, bright afternoon in peaceful Concord, N.H., Goetz grew tired of fleeing. The pale, gaunt electronics engineer walked into local police headquarters and calmly told an officer...
...Goetz was a legend before the public even knew his name. He was dubbed the Subway Shooter, the Death Wish Vigilante. Like a scene from a Charles Bronson movie suddenly splashed into tabloid surreality, his violent act unleashed a torrent of conflicting emotions among those who cast him as either an urban hero or a reckless vigilante. While there was no evidence that the young men had actually attacked Goetz, all had criminal records and three were carrying concealed sharpened screwdrivers that could have been used as weapons. A police hot line set up to collect clues to the fugitive...
...immigrants from Germany, Goetz was born in New York City but spent most of his childhood in small towns upstate. A divorcee with no children, Goetz began operating his own company, Electrical Calibrations Laboratories, out of a sparsely furnished apartment on the fringe of Greenwich Village in 1976. Neighbors describe him as a quiet, humorless man whose efforts to rid the community of derelicts, muggers and drug dealers were marred by occasional racist outbursts...