Bernard Goetz Second Shooting

Bernard Goetz was born in New York in the year of 1947. He earned a degree in electrical and nuclear engineering from New York University by 1969, which then a few years later by 1975, he started his very own business out of Greenwich Village apartment where he stayed at the time setting up electronic equipment. Prior to shooting the four teenagers at a New York City subway in 1984, Goetz had been mugged before by three African-American men at a New York City subway also in 1981. With these incidents, he became known as the "subway vigilante." He, then came to an understanding to begin carrying a gun after being disappointed of the three men with the punishment they had received. Although, having eyewitnesses when the second shooting happened, Goetz is not guilty because of self-defense, and he assert with the lack of the New York City Police, it forced them to concentrate on crime more. Subsequently, in 1984, three years after the shooting in 1981, Goetz learned that he had been identified as the suspect in the New York subway shootings. Which, he then turned himself in to the New Hampshire police. By 1985, prosecutors charged Goetz of intentionally killing someone but did not succeed, attacking someone, physical injury to another person, and having illegal weapon. After going through the …show more content…
This could also mean that he felt set up or a coincidence because he experienced being violently mugged before. Though, according to Douglas Linder in the trial of Bernard Goetz, another eyewitness Josephine Holt stated on cross-examination, "she had described, in her grand jury testimony, th e youths as standing around the white man and acting in a loud, harassing, and menacing manner." As a result, Goetz happened to have shot the four teenagers because of how they were surrounding him according to some eye