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Man Dies After Being Shot, Dumped Onto UWS Street
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Jen Chung
Published Feb 8, 2009
Modified Feb 8, 2009
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Police are trying to unravel an incident where a man was shot and then thrown from a moving Chevy Suburban SUV onto West End Avenue at West 72nd Street. The victim was pronounced dead at a hospital. The Daily News reports the vehicle is owned by a Bensonhurst resident who rented his car week-to-week to Jeffrey Bennett, who "had claimed he needed the vehicle for a flower delivery business he had started." Bennett told police he was carjacked at gunpoint by the "unidentified man," who was later "found dumped in front of a ritzy, 12-story doorman building." Plus Bennett's "story had changed several times Saturday night." The Post's version, which was posted earlier, seems to imply that the driver was hijacked by thieves who then "grabbed [the victim] from the street [at West End and 72nd] and shoved" him into the car, only to shoot him and dump him a block away.
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Jen Chung is a former WNYC and Gothamist editor.
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