Word: gunman
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Charles Bronson character in the movie "Death Wish," and set about gauging the level of public support, which was extremely high Police hotlines set up to collect eyewitness information proved virtually worthless; they were clogged with congratulations and others to pay for the legal defense of the gunman, whose advocates included civil rights leader Roy Innis...
Reality has a way of turning heroism to tragedy, even pathos. The real gunman is Bernhard Goetz, electronic whiz and loner. His was "a life of quiet desperation," concluded the New York Post. (It should know. It put 13 reporters on the story.) He has been described as moody and unstable. He certainly was frightened. He told his sister after the shooting that he did it out of fear. "A scared individual, vulnerable and fragile," a neighbor called him. When the movie is made, Goetz will be played not by Charles Bronson but by Donald Pleasence. Or better, by Anthony...
...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 gunman's identity and whereabouts was deluged instead with calls from admirers...
...asked if he had $5. "Yes, I have $5 for each of you," he replied. He stood up, whipped a silver revolver out of the waistband of his jeans and fired a well-aimed bullet into each of his harassers as other passengers dived screaming to the floor. The gunman then helped two terrified women to their feet and calmly told a conductor that the youths "tried to rip me off." He stepped through the rear door of the car, jumped onto the tracks and disappeared into the gloom of the subway tunnel. His victims, all ages...
Many New Yorkers saw the shooting victims as symbols of the subway crime that has terrorized innumerable city residents and the gunman as a real-life counterpart of the vigilante hero portrayed by Charles Bronson in the 1974 movie Death Wish. But it was the vigilante who had committed one of the most violent subway crimes in years. Police distributed thousands of flyers bearing a sketch of the gunman, whose likely age they put at 25 to 30, and at week's end claimed to have received some leads from citizens who did not think him worthy of praise. Said...