- Police Brutality Watch

Law enforcement officials are investigating a fatal shooting in Yonkers early Saturday in which city police officers and state troopers fired dozens of shots at a Bronx man who had led them on a three-mile car chase. The internal affairs divisions of the Yonkers and state police are looking into the shooting, officials said yesterday, as is the Westchester County district attorney's office. The chase began just south of Exit 1 of the New York State Thruway when troopers tried to pull over the man, David T. Horn, 37, for speeding, the police said. He refused to stop, and exited the Thruway onto McLean Avenue. Mr. Horn, chased by the two troopers along with three Yonkers police officers, sped through several city streets into an alleyway, where the officers got out of their cars to try to arrest him, Yonkers police officials said. Mr. Horn repeatedly backed up and drove toward the officers, officials said, but the car did not hit them. The five officers then fired 27 shots, according to evidence at the scene, the Yonkers police said. Mr. Horn then drove forward for about 100 yards before crashing into a utility pole. He was pronounced dead at the scene. The dead man's family expressed anger that his body was still in the vehicle more than six hours after the crash and that he received no medical treatment for more than an hour because of live utility wires that had fallen on the SUV as a result of the crash. "He might have still been alive," his sister, Patricia Horn, said last night. "Regardless of what happened, no one deserves to be left in the car for seven hours."Officials said the investigation would determine how many bullets had struck Mr. Horn. [more] and [more] and [more]

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