Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In 1984, Bernhard Goetz opened fire on four Black men on the New York City subway. He was charged with attempted murder, assault, ...

NEW YORK — One of four teenagers wounded by New York City subway gunman Bernhard Hugo Goetz has died of an apparent drug overdose 27 years to the day after that notorious shooting. Forty-five-year-old ...

Episode two of Netflix's docuseries Trial by Media is dedicated to the 1984 New York City subway shooting and Bernhard Goetz. Goetz, who became known as the Subway Vigilante, shot four Black teenagers ...

Here’s how TIME recounted the 1984 subway shooting in the Apr. 8, 1985, issue of the magazine: The weather was unseasonably warm on the Saturday before Christmas when Goetz strolled out of his ...

“I wanted to kill those guys. I wanted to maim those guys," Bernhard Goetz said during his 1984 police interrogation. "I wanted to make them suffer in every way I could... If I had more bullets, I ...

Elliot Williams introduces his new book "Five Bullets." 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 ...

Nearly 40 years before former Marine Daniel Penny captured headlines for the death of Jordan Neely, another case brought questions of crime and self-defense to the forefront of the national dialogue.

It was an unseasonably mild and sunny winter’s Saturday, the temperature hitting 60 as shoppers thronged the streets three days before Christmas. Sidewalk Santas rang their bells and carols filled the ...

Two new books trace an arc from the notorious Bernie Goetz case to the spread of vigilantism today. By Jennifer Szalai Darrell Cabey, who was awarded $43 million by jury for injuries from being shot ...

One of the most notorious criminal cases of the 1980s was the 1984 Subway Vigilante trial. A man named Bernhard Goetz had boarded a subway train in New York, been approached by four teens who were ...

On June 23, the Supreme Court overturned New York’s 111-year-old Sullivan Law, which regulates the concealed carry of firearms in our state. The court ruled that the law unconstitutionally prevented ...

It may be almost impossible for someone who did not live in New York twenty years ago to understand the first few days of spiritual uplift that followed the December 22, 1984, incident that made ...