​What Happens When A Case Never Truly Ends ​The cold winter of 1984 changed New York City forever when a quiet electrical engineer named Bernhard Goetz drew a silver revolver on a subway train and ...

In the immediate aftermath of the death of Jordan Neely after he was choked by Daniel Penny on the floor of an uptown F train 18 months ago, parallels were floated to the shooting of four Black ...

New York City in the 1980s was not necessarily a beacon of hope. By then, the crack cocaine epidemic had fully sunk its teeth ...

Elliot Williams, a CNN legal analyst and frequent commentator for other outlets, wrote his first book, “Five Bullets,” about the 1984 Bernhard Goetz subway shooting. “Five Bullets: The Story of Bernie ...

Accused “subway vigilante” Bernhard Goetz, who shot four young black men whom he believed were intent on robbing him on the subway, is surrounded by newsmen in New York, 1987. (AP Photo) Goetz fled ...

“Fear and Fury” by Heather Ann Thompson and “Five Bullets” by Elliot Williams vividly revisit the 1984 subway shooting that gripped the country ...

The sharpened screwdrivers, memorable and imaginary, tell a lot of the story. Three days before Christmas 1984, Bernhard Goetz, a 37-year-old electrical engineer living on 14th Street, got on a ...

In 1984, in a New York subway car, Bernie Goetz opened fire on four black teenagers who he claimed were trying to rob him. At a time when fears of rising crime were rife, some saw Goetz as a hometown ...