Larry Davis (criminal)
Автор:
Jesse Russell,Ronald Cohn, 128 стр., издатель:
"Книга по Требованию", ISBN:
978-5-5092-4168-0
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Larry Davis (May 28, 1966 – February 20, 2008), who changed his name to Adam Abdul-Hakeem in 1989, was a New Yorker who shot six New York City police officers on November 19, 1986 when they raided his sister's Bronx apartment. The police said that the raid was executed in order to question Davis about the killing of four suspected drug dealers. At trial, Davis's defense attorneys claimed that the raid was staged to murder him because of his knowledge of the involvement of corrupt police in the drug business. With the help of family contacts and street friends, he eluded capture for the next 17 days despite a massive manhunt. Once the search was narrowed to a single building, he took several hostages but surrendered to police when the presence of reporters assured him that he would not be harmed. Davis was acquitted of attempted murder charges in the police shootout case and was acquitted of murder charges in the case involving the slain drug...