Bernhard Goetz
Bernhard Hugo Goetz is a New York City man known for shooting four young black men after they allegedly tried to mug him on a New York City Subway train in Manhattan on December 22, 1984. He fired five shots, seriously wounding all four men. Nine days later he surrendered to police and was eventually charged with attempted murder, assault, reckless endangerment, and several firearms offenses. A jury found him not guilty of all charges except for one count of carrying an unlicensed firearm, for which he served eight months of a oneyear sentence. In 1996, one of the shot men, who had been left paraplegic and brain damaged as a result of his injuries, obtained a civil judgment of 43 million against Goetz.
Goetz was born on November 7, 1947 in Kew Gardens, Queens, New York City, the son of Gertrude and Bernhard Willard Goetz, Sr. His parents were Germanborn immigrants who had met in the United States Goetzs father was Lutheran his mother, who was Jewish, converted to her husbands faith.
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