Shooting Survivor Laments: ‘They Tried To Kill Me’
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Governor Pataki and Governor-elect Spitzer added their voices yesterday to the chorus of those speaking out about a shooting by police.
Even as the politicians weighed in on the death of Sean Bell, who was killed outside a Queens club early Saturday, one of the men who was injured, Joseph Guzman, spoke for the first time from his hospital bed at Mary Immaculate Hospital. Afterward, the Rev. Al Sharpton, who was with Mr. Guzman at the time, said he was very clear: “He just kept saying, ‘They tried to kill me. They tried to kill me.'”
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