1 Killed, 10 Injured After N.Y. Protest Turns Violent : Inner city: Mayor calls for calm after second disturbance related to police shooting. Crowds hurl bottles from rooftops, fire at officers.

Inner-city residents protesting a fatal police shooting in their neighborhood set fires, tossed bottles from rooftops and fired at police Monday night in the second disturbance arising from the shooting.

One man died after he jumped off a five-story building as police chased bottle-throwers. He may have thought he would land on a fire escape, said Sgt. Mary Wrensen, a police spokeswoman.

Ten others were injured, including three police officers, Wrensen said.

The disturbances come a week before about 40,000 visitors arrive in New York for the Democratic National Convention.

Mayor David N. Dinkins appealed for calm in the largely Latino neighborhood during a newscast Monday night on a Spanish-language television station.

“It is necessary to be calm. The frustration and anger is understood, but it is no answer to have destruction of property, injury to people and perhaps even loss of life,” the mayor said.

Protesters torched an abandoned building and at least two cars in the Washington Heights section of northern Manhattan.

At least eight people were arrested on charges of disorderly conduct, arson and assault.

The night began with a peaceful march by several hundred residents who gathered near where Jose Garcia, 23, was shot Friday night. They held candles and chanted “police assassin” in Spanish.

Some of the demonstrators splintered off and began throwing bottles off rooftops, said Police Officer Andrew McInnis.

“These cops are murdering the people around here,” said Jose Nunez, 15. “If they’re not beating up on people, they’re killing them.”

A similar disturbance broke out Saturday after witnesses disputed a police report that Garcia was armed and was fatally shot as he struggled the officer. City officials have promised an investigation.

Garcia’s relatives and witnesses say he was unarmed when he was shot in the lobby of a Washington Heights building. They also say the officer, Michael O’Keefe, beat Garcia.

Police officials have said O’Keefe found a fully loaded .38-caliber revolver on Garcia and that the officer shot him during a struggle.

The unrest was the latest in a series of clashes between minorities and police in several U.S. cities.