NYPD Bullet Kills Groom on Wedding Day
NEW YORK (AP) - Police fired 50 rounds Saturday at a car of unarmed men leaving a bachelor party at a strip club, killing the groom on his wedding day in a shooting that drew a furious outcry from family members and community leaders.
The spray of bullets hit the car 21 times, after the vehicle rammed into an undercover officer and then an unmarked NYPD minivan twice, police said. Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly would not say if the collisions were what prompted police to open fire.
It was too early to say whether the shooting was justified, Kelly said.
Police thought one of the men in the car might have had a gun. But police found no weapons.
Kelly said the incident stemmed from an undercover operation inside the strip club. Seven officers in plain clothes were investigating the Kalua Cabaret, and five were involved in the shooting. The gunfire also hit nearby homes and a train station, though no residents were injured.
A veteran officer fired his weapon 31 times, emptying two full magazines, Kelly said. All the officers carried 9 mm handguns.
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Sharpton went to the hospitals where the men were taken and afterward held news conferences. At Jamaica Hospital, the civil rights advocate stood with about two dozen members of Bell's and his fiancee's family.
"I will stand with this family," he said. "This stinks. Something about the story being told did not seem right."
Sharpton said Bell and his fiancee had two children, ages 3 years and 5 months.
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I know there will be racial retorts to this but I gotta agree with AL on this one..
50 ROUNDS FIRED?? 5 cops firing their weapons..
1 Dead, 2 injured and one flees the scene.
The gunfire also hit nearby homes and a train station, though no residents were injured.
and no weapons found at the scene!!
I do not want cops like this in my neighborhood and I'm white!!
Even if the cops say that the vehicle was the dangerous weapon....
Aren't Police trained to HIT their targets with a little more accuracy???
Only 16 of the shots fired, hit their targets!! and only 1 fatality!!
That's 32% hits and 68% miss!!!
and btw.. No weapon other than the vehicle was found!!
and also HTF does anyone flee that scene???
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Police describe the incident!