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Killing of Amadou Diallo
1999 police shooting of a Guinean-American man
"Amadou Diallo" redirects here. For others with the same name, see Amadou Diallo (disambiguation).
Not to be confused with Mamadou Diallo (disambiguation), Hamidou Diallo, or Amad Diallo.
In the early hours of February 4, 1999, an unarmed 23-year-old Guinean student named Amadou Diallo (born September 2, 1975) was fired upon with 41 rounds and shot a total of 19 times by four New York City Police Department plainclothes officers: Sean Carroll, Richard Murphy, Edward McMellon, and Kenneth Boss.
Carroll later claimed to have mistaken Diallo for a rape suspect from one year earlier.
The four officers, who were part of the Street Crime Unit, which had expanded in size under mayor Rudy Giuliani, were charged with second-degree murder and acquitted at trial in Albany, New York.[1] A firestorm of controversy erupted after the event, as the circumstances of the shooting prompted outrage both within and