Sources: At Least One Officer To Be Indicted In Bell Case (NYC Police shooting)

[brooklynite]

Sources are telling NY1 that at least one of the five officers involved in the fatal shooting of 23-year-old Sean Bell last November will be indicted, but a local news channel says sources are saying as many as three officers will be brought up on charges.

After almost two months of reviewing evidence and hearing testimony, an announcement was made this afternoon that the Queens grand jury had reached a decision on whether to indict the officers, but that the outcome wouldn't be reveald until Monday morning.

"Until such time, the results of the grand jury's deliberations remained sealed as a matter of law," the district attorney's office said.

The jury has spent the past three days deliberating whether or not to indict five police officers who fired 50 shots at Bell and his two friends Joseph Guzman and Trent Benefield.

http://www.ny1.com/ny1/content/index.jsp?stid=1&aid=67751

[Eugene]

1. AP: Grand jury indicts 3 in NYPD shooting

Grand jury indicts 3 in NYPD shooting

By PAT MILTON, Associated Press Writer

8 minutes ago

NEW YORK - A grand jury Friday indicted at least three of the five
police officers whose 50-shot barrage killed an unarmed man on his
wedding day, lawyers for the officers said. It was not immediately
disclosed if the other officers were also charged.

Attorneys for officers Marc Cooper, Gerscard Isnora and Michael
Oliver said their clients had been indicted, but they did not know
what offenses the officers had been charged with.

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Full article: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070316/ap_on_re_us/police_shooting

[HockeyMom]

2. The one who reloaded and fired 35 rounds

should defintely fry. One of the cops only fired one shot. You cannot compare the two.

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

4. Unless the one-shot cop was just a better aim

and all he needed was one shot to put the victim down... :shrug:

[Eugene]

3. AP: NYPD Officers Surrender in Groom Death

NYPD Officers Surrender in Groom Death


Monday March 19, 2007 1:31 PM

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By PAT MILTON

Associated Press Writers

NEW YORK (AP) - Three police officers surrendered Monday to face charges
in the shooting that killed a groom on his wedding day.

The policemen, accused of firing most of the 50 shots at three young men
in a car outside a nightclub, were being fingerprinted and processed Monday
morning before their arraignment.

Michael Oliver, who fired 31 times, and Gescard Isnora, who fired 11 bullets,
face felony manslaughter charges, according to a person close to the
investigation, who spoke with The Associated Press on condition of anonymity
because the results were secret. Marc Cooper, who fired four shots, faces a
misdemeanor endangerment charge, the person said.

Grand jurors declined to indict on the more serious counts of second-degree
murder, and attempted murder, or the lesser charge of criminally negligent
homicide. Two other officers involved in the shooting were not indicted.

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Full article: http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-6491940,00.html