Shooting him dead would also have worked.
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Exactly 27 years to the day after Bernhard Goetz famous in New York lore as the Subway Vigilante shot four young men he thought were threatening him on a train, one of them killed himself by swallowing prescription pills in a low-rent Bronx motel, authorities said. ..."
Ramseur had gotten out of prison only 17 months ago, after serving 25 years upstate for raping a young woman on a Bronx rooftop. ..."