NYC POLICE SHOOTINGS 1999
The Following 27 New York Times Headlines are
selections of the first 200 articles on Police Shootings of a search that resulted in over
1,000 entries for 1999. Of course, this is just the tip of the iceberg since there are
thousands of other incidents that don't get reported, including injuries that result from
police cars crashes, police beatings, bias crimes, verbal abuse, etc.
March 21, 1999, Sunday
1) Police Shoot Two Teen-Agers After Car Chase in Brooklyn
Police officers investigating a car theft in Brooklyn yesterday morning shot and wounded two teen-age suspects when they
tried to run over the officers, the police said. The 15-year-old boys, whose names were
not released because of their age, were t ...
April 3, 1999, Saturday
2) Top Giuliani Aide Said to Experience Race Bias by Police
At the height of the public furor over the police shooting of Amadou Diallo, Deputy Mayor Rudy Washington
-- the highest-ranking black member of the Giuliani administration -- told Mayor Rudolph
W. Giuliani of being harassed more than once by police
...
April 6, 1999, Tuesday
3) Diallo Defendant Is Cleared in a '97 Killing
The Brooklyn District Attorney said yesterday that one of the police officers charged with
murdering Amadou Diallo in the Bronx two months ago had acted properly when he fatally shot another man in Brooklyn in 1997.
Saying that he was closing the inv ...
April 12, 1999, Monday
4) 11 Miles of Turnpike Shut To Re-Create a Shooting
In an extraordinary investigative action, law enforcement officials shut down an 11-mile
stretch of the New Jersey Turnpike this morning to re-enact a 1998 shooting that focused
allegations of racial profiling against the
State Police. Hundreds of d ...
April 14, 1999, Wednesday
5) Unarmed Boy Is Fatally Shot By the Police In Hartford
An unarmed 14-year-old boy died early today when he was shot in the
back by a Hartford police officer who said later that he had believed the
youth was reaching for a gun as he ran away, police officials said. Instead, the police
said they found a gu ...
April 20, 1999, Tuesday
6) Trenton Charges 2 Troopers With Falsifying Drivers' Race
In the first official sign that the New Jersey State Police may have illegally
singled out black and Hispanic motorists, the Attorney General today
announced the indictments of two troopers accused of falsifying documents to make it
appear that some ...
April 21, 1999, Wednesday
7) Officer Guilty in '96 Killing After a Night of Drinking
A Bronx Supreme Court justice found a New York City police officer guilty of second-degree
manslaughter yesterday in the off-duty shooting
of an Irish immigrant after a night of drinking in 1996. The officer, Richard J. Molloy,
33, had repeatedly sai ...
May 27, 1999, Thursday
8) Officer Critically Wounds Unarmed Youth After a Struggle
An unarmed 16-year-old youth was shot and
critically wounded early yesterday morning by a police officer from the department's
Street Crime Unit after a chase and a brief struggle on a dark Bronx street, the police
said. Police officials said that th ...
May 28, 1999, Friday
9) Safir Calls Shooting an Accident but Says Youth Was Out Too
Late
Police Commissioner Howard Safir said yesterday that the shooting of an unarmed
16-year-old boy by a member of the Police Department's Street
Crime Unit appeared to have been an accident, and he questioned what the
youth had been doing out on the str ...
May 30, 1999, Sunday
10) Teen-Ager Is Shot by a Housing Officer
A plainclothes housing officer returned the gunfire of a teen-ager
in Brooklyn on Friday night, wounding him, the police said. But the
16-year-old's family, including an aunt who said she had witnessed the shooting, denied
yesterday that the youth ha ...
June 4, 1999, Friday
11) Inquiry Ordered Into Killing by Police
The Morris County Prosecutor today ordered a grand jury investigation into the actions of
four police officers who fired 27 bullets at a stopped car
on Interstate 80 early Wednesday, killing an unarmed man who had led them on a high-speed
chase.
June 20, 1999, Sunday
12) METRO NEWS BRIEFS: NEW YORK; Indictment Says Officer Shot
Ex-Wife's Husband
A New York City police officer was indicted Friday in the shooting
of his ex-wife's new husband. A Bronx grand jury indicted the officer,
Alfonso McMillian, on charges of attempted murder in the second degree, assault and
criminal use of a firearm in ...
July 10, 1999, Saturday
13) Acquitted Officer May Face New Charges
Police officials said yesterday that they would probably bring departmental proceedings
against the officer acquitted of criminal charges in the shooting
of an unarmed squeegee man. But they said it would be difficult to
establish violations of polic ...
July 21, 1999, Wednesday
14) Jury Awards $5.7 Million In Police Killing Of a Hostage
A Manhattan jury awarded $5.7 million yesterday to the family of a woman
killed by police officers who fired 29 shots at an armed bank robber who
used her as a human shield during a 1993 Upper West Side gun battle. The jury ruled that
the six officer ...
August 11, 1999, Wednesday
15) Safir Defends Police Shooting of Bank Suspect
Police Commissioner Howard Safir yesterday defended the six police
officers who fired 36 shots and
killed a suspected bank robber on Monday during a lunchtime chase through the crowded
streets of the Financial District. ''I think that the police offi ...
August 17, 1999, Tuesday
16) Drug Officer Shoots Man; Suspect in Prior Sting Dies
A police officer shot and critically wounded a man
on a Brooklyn street yesterday after an undercover drug operation went awry, the police
said. The shooting was the second in two days by the police during a drug sting. In the
first sting, on Sunday ...
August 19, 1999, Thursday
17) Man Is Fatally Shot by an Officer During Arrest in a Car
Break-In
A veteran police officer fatally shot a homeless man on
the Upper East Side early yesterday when his service pistol went off during a struggle
with the man, who was suspected of breaking into a car, the police said. It was the fourth
shooting by the ...
August 19, 1999, Thursday
18) Officer Is Said To Tell Jurors Police Beat Dead Suspect
According to a published report, an Orange police officer has told a Federal grand jury
that fellow officers beat a
27-year-old man who died in custody after being picked up in connection
with the shooting of another Orange police officer. An article ...
September 2, 1999, Thursday
19) Unarmed Man Killed in Struggle With Police
An unarmed man fleeing the police was fatally shot
yesterday when an officer's service pistol discharged during an attempt to wrest the man
from a livery cab in Harlem, the police said. The dead man, identified as Richard Watson,
32, of Baltimore, h ...
September 19, 1999, Sunday
20) Police Kill Man During Drug Operation
Two undercover police officers shot and killed a 26-year-old
Brooklyn man early yesterday, after he became angry that they were buying
crack cocaine from someone else and shot one of them in the foot, the police said. The man
was declared dead at the ...
October 4, 1999, Monday
21) SHOOTING IN BROOKLYN: A special report.; Police Account
Challenged In Killing of Troubled
Only hours after a fatal police shooting
brought hundreds of Hasidic protesters to the streets of a Brooklyn neighborhood, Police
Commissioner Howard Safir, defending his officers, could hardly have been more specific in
describing how and why the po ...
October 30, 1999, Saturday
22) Brooklyn Robbery Suspect, 17, Is Shot to Death by the
Police
A rookie police officer fatally shot a 17-year-old robbery suspect in the back of
the neck early yesterday morning in Brooklyn after another suspect opened fire on the
officers, the police said. The shooting took place at 12:11 A.M. at Flatlands Aven ...
October 30, 1999, Saturday
23) Investigation Into Shooting Clears Officer
The United States Attorney for Connecticut announced today that he would not prosecute a
white police officer in the 1997 shooting death of a young
black driver. The announcement ended a 20-month investigation into
possible civil rights violations by ...
November 10, 1999, Wednesday
24) METRO NEWS BRIEFS: CONNECTICUT; State Police Investigate
Fatal Shooting by Officer
The state police are investigating the shooting by a Clinton
police officer of a man who was suspected of stabbing a pregnant woman.
The suspect, Jeffrey N. Grant, 20, of Hartford, was pronounced dead at Middlesex Medical
Center-Shoreline in Essex, t ...
December 2, 1999, Thursday
25) Officials Say Witness Saw Troopers Fire In a Panic
A witness who said he saw New Jersey state troopers shoot
three unarmed young black and Hispanic men during
a traffic stop on the turnpike in April 1998 has told investigators that the officers
appeared to fire their weapons in a panic, as the three men, two blacks and a His ...
December 21, 1999, Tuesday
26) No Indictment For 4 Officers Who Killed Fleeing Driver
A Morris County grand jury declined yesterday to indict four police officers who fired 25 shots into a car last June and killed an
unarmed man after a chase on Interstate 80 in New Jersey. The grand jury was convened in
Morristown by the Morris Count ...
December 21, 1999, Tuesday
27) AN ATHLETE ACCUSED: A special report.; Beneath the
Smiles, A Tangled Relationship
The day after gunmen mortally wounded his pregnant girlfriend and the police treated him like a suspect, Rae Carruth
took shelter at another girlfriend's apartment here and spoke in soft tones on the
telephone to his stepfather in California. Carruth ...
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