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Two Men Killed and One Badly Hurt in Shooting Outside Nightclub

 

By JAMES C. McKINLEY Jr.

 

Published: December 31, 1989

 

Two men, including a paralegal in the Queens District Attorney's office, were killed, and a Yale University sophomore was seriously wounded, when a gunman opened fire on a crowd of people standing outside a Manhattan nightclub near Union Square early yesterday, the police said.

 

The paralegal and the Yale student, who was home on Christmas break, were bystanders who were waiting in line to get into the club, the Underground, on Broadway at 17th Street, the police said.

 

Investigators said the third victim, who was not immediately identified, apparently was the target of the shooting. He was shot in the head and abdomen and died at the scene, the police said. Investigators said the man had been thrown out of the club a few minutes earlier after having a fistfight with another patron, who is believed to be the gunman, said Chief Ronald J. Fenrich, commanding officer of Manhattan detectives.

 

The paralegal, Steve Pleasants, 30 years old, of 112 South 176th Street in St. Albans, Queens, was hit once in the abdomen and died several hours later at Bellevue Hospital Center, the police said.

 

The Yale student, Richard Lyn Cook, 19, of 97-11 Horace Harding Expressway in the Corona section of Queens, was shot in the head, the police said. Mr. Lyn Cook was conscious and in stable condition at Bellevue yesterday after undergoing four hours of surgery to remove bone splinters from his brain, his mother, Edna Lyn Cook, said. The wound left him paralyzed on his left side, she said. Two Other Killings This Year

 

By last night, no one had been arrested in connection with the shootings, which occurred at 3:31 A.M. outside the block-long, two-story discotheque. It has been the scene of at least two other fatal shootings this year, the police said.

 

Chief Fenrich said that the unidentified man who was killed had had a fistfight on the lower level of the club and that bouncers had forced him out a door that opens onto 17th Street a few minutes before the shooting.

 

The man went to the front entrance, at the corner of Broadway and 17th Street, and pleaded with another bouncer to let him return and get his coat, Chief Fenrich said. He appeared extremely frightened, the chief said.

 

''When this person was trying to get back in, he was agitated and said to the security guard, 'Hey, do you want to get me shot?' '' Chief Fenrich said. Ten Shots Fired Into Crowd

 

As the bouncer turned to go inside the club to get the coat, a man in a red leather jacket with black sleeves, who was standing in the middle of Broadway, pulled a 9-millimeter semiautomatic pistol out of his jacket and started firing at the man who had been ejected, Chief Fenrich said.

 

The gunman fired 10 shots into the crowd of 10 to 25 people who were waiting to get into the club, the police said.

 

A dark sedan, which had been sitting on 17th Street about 50 feet from the corner of Broadway, pulled up to the gunman, who got in and sped west on 17th Street, Chief Fenrich said.

 

Witnesses described the gunman as black, in his 20's, 5 feet 8 inches tall and about 170 pounds, Chief Fenrich said.

 

Mr. Pleasants was hired by the Queens District Attorney's office on Nov. 13 as a paralegal in the Major Offense Trial Bureau, said Richard Piperno, a spokesman for the District Attorney. A recent graduate of the Howard University Law School, Mr. Pleasants was planning to take the bar exam and become an assistant district attorney, Mr. Piperno said.

 

Mr. Lyn Cook, a graduate of Regis High School in Manhattan, was escorting two cousins when he was shot, his mother said. The club employees had let his cousins in but refused to admit him because he was wearing tennis shoes, she said. He was trying to persuade the bouncers to let him inside to find his relatives when the shooting started.

 

On Jan. 29, a 23-year-old bouncer, Timothy Lorenzo, was shot in the face and killed in front of the Underground after an argument with a patron, the police said. A month later, Keith Headley, 17, was killed by a shotgun blast as he left the club at 3:30 A.M.

 

The police arrested Robert Fox, 21, on June 6 and charged him in the Lorenzo shooting. No one has been arrested in the shooting of Mr. Headley.

 

http://www.nytimes.com/1989/12/31/nyregion/two-men-killed-and-one-badly-hurt-in-shooting-outside-nightclub.html

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