Chinese Artist Killed on Midtown Street of NYC
Bo Xiong
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>Original-From: lia...@cs.buffalo.edu (Liang Li) Sun Aug 18 14:54:19 1991
>Subject: Chinese artist killed on midtown street of NYC
>from UPI
A street artist working on a sketch in front of a Midtown Manhattan
hotel was shot to death early Sunday before a horrified crowd of onlookers,
police said.
According to witnesses at the scene, the 2 a.m. shooting in front of
the Milford Plaza Hotel may have been sparked by a chicken bone being
flung at the artist while he was at work.
Lin Lin, 34, Harlem, was shot once in the chest and was pronounced
dead at the scene, said Sgt. Ed Burns, a police spokesman.
A neighbor who knew Lin said he was a graduate of a renowned art
school in Shanghai, China, who moved to the United States about four
years ago.
Arrested soon after the attack was the alleged gunman, James Skinner,
21, and Michael Slater, 19, also of Brooklyn, Burns said. Two
accomplices still were still being sought, he said.
A .38-caliber revolver was recovered at the scene, the sergeant said.
Milford Plaza security officer Brian Harrison arrived moments after
Lin was shot, he said.
``There was a whole crowd of people standing around, and there was
blood everywhere,'' Harrison said. ``As he (Ling) was laying on the
ground, his hands were up in the air and he was grabbing a lady.''
The woman he had been clutching, was apparently a friend of his,
Harrison said.
Minutes later he died, Harrison said.
Witnesses to the shocking attack said one of four men who had stopped
in front of the crowd watching Lin work had flung a chicken bone at the
artist who had retaliated by throwing a bottle at them, Harrison said.
The men fled but returned soon afterward and one man fired at Lin,
striking him once in the chest, he said.
One of Lin's neighbors, who requested anonymity, said that the artist
had been in the country for about four years after leaving his home in
Shanghai, China, and was a graduate of the renowned art school Zheijang
Art Academy.
She said the artist, who she called very talented, never got into
fights with anyone. She said he also was committed to the student
democracy movement in his homeland.
``He had many friends. He was very generous and liked to help people.
And he devoted his life to art,'' she said.
When the neighbor first heard about the shooting, she was shocked.
``That kind of thing should never happen to a person like him,'' she
said.
A manager at the hotel, who requested anonymity, said Lin was not
well-known in the hotel area, which he called rough, adding that Lin did
not usually work there.
>Original-From: lia...@cs.buffalo.edu (Liang Li) Sun Aug 18 14:54:19 1991
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Forwarded to SCC by Bo Xiong in Chicago
gyu
> >>Original-From: lia...@cs.buffalo.edu (Liang Li) Sun Aug 18 14:54:19 1991
> >>Subject: Chinese artist killed on midtown street of NYC
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> ^^^^^^^^^^^
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> very dangerous indeed!
Not near, it's far away from Harlem: about 75 streets away. The teenage murder
comes from Brooklyn, in fact.
kenton yee
>>Subject: Chinese artist killed on midtown street of NYC
>>from UPI
> A street artist working on a sketch in front of a Midtown Manhattan
>hotel was shot to death early Sunday before a horrified crowd of onlookers,
>police said.
> According to witnesses at the scene, the 2 a.m. shooting in front of
>the Milford Plaza Hotel may have been sparked by a chicken bone being
>flung at the artist while he was at work.
>blood everywhere,'' Harrison said. ``As he (Ling) was laying on the
>ground, his hands were up in the air and he was grabbing a lady.''
2 a.m. sunday morning! midtown manhattan, near harlem?
very dangerous indeed!