Article: GOETZ VICTIM REFUSES TO TESTIFY; IN CONTEMPT.(Main)

Byline: Samuel Maull Associated Press

James Ramseur, one of four youths shot by Bernhard Goetz on a Manhattan subway, refused to testify at Goetz's attempted murder trial Tuesday and was held in contempt of court.

Ramseur's refusal came shortly after a subway employee who witnessed the shootings testified he was so terrified that he sat immobilized on the No. 2 train, afraid that "if I got up, this man would shoot me."

Victor Flores, a Transit Authority porter who was on his way to his brother's apartment in Brooklyn on Dec. 22, 1984, said Goetz "just kept shooting until he didn't have no more - he stopped. His hand went down."

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