Subway Shooter Indicted Only on Gun Charges
A grand jury has voted to indict Bernhard Goetz on three counts of criminal possession of a weapon in the shootings of four young men on a subway train, Manhattan District Attorney Robert Morgenthau announced today. The jury could also have indicted him on attempted murder charges.
Morgenthau said no true bill was voted on other charges submitted to the grand jury, including four counts of second-degree attempted murder, four counts of first-degree assault and first-degree reckless endangerment.
Goetz, 37, was indicted on one count of third-degree criminal possession of a weapon--illegally having a loaded pistol on Dec. 22, 1984, when he allegedly shot four teen-agers who asked him for $5.
He also was indicted on two counts of fourth-degree criminal possession of a weapon. He allegedly had two other pistols inside his Manhattan on Dec. 30, when police searched it.
Goetz had been charged by the district attorney’s office with attempted murder in the second degree and criminal possession of a weapon.
He is free on $50,000 bail.
Third-degree weapons possession carries a maximum seven-year sentence, and fourth-degree carries a maximum one-year term.
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