The Nation : Injured Youth Sues Goetz
A youth who remains in a coma after being shot along with three other teen-agers last month in a New York subway train filed a $50-million lawsuit against Bernhard H. Goetz, who has admitted the shooting. Lawyers for Darrell Cabey, 19, who is in critical condition from his wounds, said they filed the state court suit “to temper the wave of adulation” for Goetz. They say Cabey was shot in the back even though he never went near Goetz. Lawyer William Kunstler said Cabey “was across the subway car, seated 20 feet away” and only one youth approached Goetz and asked for $5. Police, citing witnesses’ accounts of the Dec. 22 incident, have said the youths stood surrounding Goetz while one demanded money.
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