What the records say
- When
- 4 Feb 1999
- Kind
- Shooting
- Coordinates
- 40.83° N, 73.88° W
- Description
- 1999 police killing of a Guinean man in New York City, New York, United States
Killing of Amadou Diallo
1999 police shooting of a Guinean-American man
In the early hours of February 4, 1999, 23-year-old Amadou Diallo, an unarmed Guinean student, was struck with 19 of 41 rounds fired by four New York City Police Department plainclothes officers: Sean Carroll, Richard Murphy, Edward McMellon, and Kenneth Boss. Carroll later claimed to have mistaken Diallo for a rape suspect from one year earlier.
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