New York - The death of a Guinean man in a hail of police bullets prompted anger and calls for a federal inquiry here yesterday. Ahmed Diallo, a 22-year-old street vendor with no police record, was hit in his Bronx apartment by 24 of 41 bullets fired by an elite plainclothes police squad early on Thursday.
The four officers were searching for a serial rapist whose description did not match Diallo's. An anonymous police source described the shooting as a "mistake".