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Article: GOETZ VICTIM REFUSES TO TESTIFY AT TRIAL

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May 6, 1987
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NEW YORK - James Ramseur, one of four youths shot by Bernhard Goetz on a Manhattan subway, was held in contempt of court yesterday after he refused to testify at Goetz' attempted murder trial.

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."

One of the wounded youths, on the subway floor after the shooting, ...

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