The Nation - News from July 5, 1989

The New York man accused of being the subway vigilante who gunned down three youths he suspected of mugging him asserted his innocence, calling his arrest a case of mistaken identity. Clemente Jackson, 21, has consistently denied he was the gunman who called out “Remember me?” before shooting three youths he believed had mugged him the day before at the same Brooklyn subway station. Speaking at a Manhattan news conference the day after he was freed on $2,500 bail, Jackson described his ordeal as a “nightmare,” and asserted police had arrested the wrong man June 22. Justice Michael Pesce reduced Jackson’s bail from $50,000 after five witnesses testified that the suspect was on Long Island the night of the shooting, said Nancy Young, a spokeswoman for the Brooklyn district attorney’s office.