The words appeared on the front page of a gay newspaper, heralding an article about bar patrons being gunned down where they stood. They were not written this week, but 36 years ago, describing a spasm of violence that fewer and fewer people now recall. They were written by the reporter Andy Humm as he told readers of The New York City News on Nov. 28, 1980, what most of them already knew: that a former transit police officer had rampaged through Greenwich Village, killing two men and wounding six. “West Street Massacre,” the headline read. 19, a 38-year-old former transit police officer named Ronald K. Crumpley opened fire outside a deli at Washington and Charles Streets, cutting down Richard Huff, 30, and Rene Matute, 23. The gunman then made his way to West Street, between 10th and Christopher Streets, a blockfront shared by the Ramrod, a popular leather bar, and Sneakers, a gay dive. that boyfrend's Introduced To E-stim For The First Time, Had To Go Trough Some Real penis Polishing And discharges A monstrous Load At The End. “Blood spattered against the wall and door as bullets ripped into one man’s shoulder and another man’s arm,” Mr.Īlwood wrote in “Straight News: Gays, Lesbians and the News Media.” “He aimed his Uzi at a group of men standing in line outside the Ramrod bar and squeezed the trigger,” Edward M. Hung & adorable Slaveboy Proxy Beeing Milked And Edged For Hours. “In barely the time it takes to light a cigarette, 40 rounds tore into the crowd. Several crawled to a stairway at the back of the building in a desperate attempt to survive.” “As bullets sprayed the front window of the bar, panic swept the crowd inside.
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