Word: gunman
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Ever since he shot and wounded four youths who had approached him on a Manhattan subway in December 1984, Bernhard Goetz has been alternately hailed as a hero in the war against crime and condemned as a trigger-happy gunman. Now a jury will be asked to decide which label fits him. The New York State Court of Appeals last week reinstated attempted murder and assault charges against Goetz, ordering him to stand trial as early as Sept...
...subway gunman won a dismissal of the charges last January, when a lower court ruled that New York's law on self-defense justified Goetz's actions as "reasonable to him" under the circumstances. Wrong, said Court of Appeals Chief Judge Sol Wachtler. "Reasonable" circumstances must be evaluated by a jury...
...life's gritty turns. But last week terror exploded in that swank precinct. It came in the form of a respectably dressed young man who buzzed his way into the exclusive Van Cleef & Arpels jewelry store, drew a revolver and announced a robbery. When police arrived almost immediately, the gunman took five people hostage. Protected by the store's bulletproof doors and windows, he killed two hostages: Saleswoman Ann Heilperin, 40, shot in the head, and Security Guard William Smith, 54, stabbed in the back. Beverly Hills police enlisted the SWAT team from the Los Angeles County sheriff's department...
...three hostages and a drape. Police lobbed concussion grenades that knocked the group to the ground, thwarting the escape. When one man separated from the others and pointed back toward them, a Los Angeles County sheriff's deputy shot and killed him. The dead man, however, was not the gunman; Livaditis was found among his hostages, stunned and only slightly injured. He was later charged with murder, robbery, kidnaping and other crimes. The victim turned out to be the jewelry store's manager, Hugh Skinner, 64. "The shooting was not accidental," Sheriff Sherman Block explained forthrightly. "The marksman shot this...
...feels guilty for even being here." Most evenings, there is not enough in the till for his salary. Just before one of the last remaining U.S. journalists, Associated Press Correspondent Ed Blanche, finally left the war-torn city last month, he stopped off at the bar. A well-known gunman, slightly wobbly from drink, approached Blanche, tucked an object into his pocket, then burst out laughing. "I failed to see the funny side of it," Blanche reported afterward. "The present was a fragmentation grenade." The gunman, a veteran killer who seemed to be losing his nerve after years of firefights...