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| By: Associated Press |
| Published: March 2, 2006 |
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A man was fatally shot as he drove his van near his home in the Brooklyn section of New York City, and authorities were searching for a motive, police said.
The victim, Frederick Klein, 47, was looking for a parking spot when he was shot in the arm and chest through the window of his van early Tuesday, said police spokesman Paul Browne. Klein lost control of the van and collided with several parked cars before his van burst into flames, said Browne.
Klein was rescued from his burning van by witnesses but was later declared dead at the hospital.
The attack occurred in Crown Heights, a neighborhood with a history of racial unrest, but there was no indication that the attack against the Hasidic Jew was motivated by bias, police said.
"It appears that he may have been the victim of a random shot," Browne told The New York Times in Wednesday editions, though he added that the police "haven't ruled out the possibility that it was an act of road rage or in some other way directed at him."
The attack alarmed members of the Jewish community, which was shaken by violence in 1991 after a Hasidic driver struck and killed a black child. But local leaders urged calm.
"It was African-Africans from this community who took his body out (of the burning van) and tried to save him," said Jonathan Greenspun, the mayor's community affairs commissioner, according to the Daily News. |
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