He Looked Something Like This
By ANDY NEWMAN
New York Police Department The gunman, as he appeared.This is not to diminish the seriousness of the fact that a man was recently murdered in a jewelry store holdup, but the sketch that the police released Wednesday got us wondering: how is this going to help anyone catch the killer?
The drawing, at right, shows a face almost completely obscured by a hat, sunglasses and a scarf pulled all the way up to the bridge of the nose.
Even combined with the surveillance video the police released, which shows, basically, a male adult of average build, dressed in black and carrying a duffel bag, walking down Madison Avenue, the sketch would seem to reduce the pool of possible suspects only to about a quarter of the population.
City Room asked a retired detective to review the evidence. Read more…
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