N.Y. OFFICERS FACE SECOND-DEGREE MURDER CHARGES

Four New York City police officers who killed an unarmed African
immigrant in a barrage of bullets were indicted Thursday on charges of
second-degree murder, a source said.

Some of the officers - Kenneth Boss, Sean Carroll, Edward McMellon
and Richard Murphy - were also indicted on lesser charges, according
to the source.

Amadou Diallo, 22, was killed Feb. 4 in the vestibule of his Bronx
apartment building when the officers fired 41 bullets at him, hitting
him 19 times. An attorney has said the officers - who were looking for
a rape suspect - had thought Diallo was reaching for a gun, but the
street vendor was unarmed.