ONE DEAD AFTER NYC POLICE SHOOTING

NEW YORK (AP) -- Days after a jury acquitted four police officers in the
shooting of an unarmed immigrant, police said an officer shot and killed a
paroled drug dealer Wednesday in the same Bronx neighborhood.

Chief of Patrol John Scanlon said it was not immediately clear if the
officer fired intentionally or if his weapon discharged accidentally during
a struggle with the suspect, who had fled from police. The gun appeared to
have been fired at close range because blood was found on the officer's
gun, he said.

Scanlon said the officer's gun discharged once.

Police said officers from a narcotics unit had three suspects up against a
wall when one of them fled. Officer Louis Rivera and other plainclothes
officers chased him. When Rivera caught up with him, the two struggled,
police said.

The suspect, Malcolm Ferguson, 23, was shot in the head, Scanlon said.
Police said he had at least nine prior arrests and had packets of heroin on
him Wednesday night.

Rivera has been on the force 4 1/2 years and has a clean record, police
said.

News of the shooting of another unarmed man drew more than 100 angry
protesters to the streets Wednesday night.

The shooting occurred in the same neighborhood where Amadou Diallo died
last year. Four plainclothes officers fired 41 bullets at the West African
immigrant after he pulled what officers thought was a gun. It turned out to
be a wallet.

The officers were acquitted of all charges Friday.