4A NEWS THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN MONDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 2006 SHOOTING Police officers open fire at three unarmed men, kill one ASSOCIATED PRESS Adam Rountree/ASSOCIATED PRESS Rev. Al Sharpton appears at a rally and vigil outside the Mary Immaculate Hospital in the Queens borough of New York, Sunday. Trent Benefeld, 23, Joseph Guzman, 31, and Sean Bell, 23, who were attending a bachelor party at a Queens strip club were shot by police officers early Saturday. NEW YORK — An angry crowd demanded Sunday to know why police officers killed an unarmed man on the day of his wedding, firing dozens of shots that also wounded two of the man's friends. Some called for the ouster of the city's police commissioner. At a vigil and rally the day after 23-year-old Sean Bell was supposed to have married the mother of his two young children, a crowed by the Rev. Al Sharpton shouted "No justice, no peace." At one point, the crowd of a few hundred counted off to 50, the number of rounds fired. "We cannot allow this to continue to happen," Sharpton said at the gathering outside Mary Immaculate Hospital, where one of the wounded men was in critical condition. "We've got to understand that all of us were in that car." Some in the crowd called for the ouster of Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly, yelling "Kelly must go." Paul Browne, chief spokesman for the NYPD, said Sunday, "We are continuing to look for additional witnesses to shed light on the incident, and assisting the district attorney's office with its investigation." The five officers were placed on vors were Joseph Guzman, 31, who was shot at least 11 times, and Trent Benefeld, 23, who was hit three times. Guzman was in critical condition Sunday and Benefeld was stable. Relatives of all three men — many of them stoic, and some crying — attended Sunday's vigil but none spoke publicly. The shootings occurred at about 4 a.m. Saturday outside the Kalua Cabaret, a strip club where Bell's bachelor party was held. The survivi- At a news conference Saturday, Kelly said the department was still piecing together what happened, and that it was too early to say whether the shooting was justified. The car, driven by Bell, was struck by 21 of the police bullets after the vehicle rammed an undercover officer and hit an unmarked NYPD minivan. Other shots hit nearby homes and shattered windows at a train station, though no one else was injured. Police thought one of the men in the car might have had a gun but investigators found no weapons. It was unclear what prompted police to open fire, Kelly said. It was also not clear whether the shooters had identified themselves as police, Kelly said. Kelly said the confrontation stemmed from an undercover operation inside the strip club in the Jamaica section of Queens. Seven officers in plain clothes were investigating the Kalua Cabaret; five of them were involved in the shooting. According to Kelly, the groom was involved in a verbal dispute outside the club and one of his friends made a reference to a gun. An undercover officer walked closely behind Bell and his friends as they headed for their car. As he walked toward the front of the vehicle, the car drove forward, striking the officer and a nearby undercover police vehicle, Kelly said. The officer who had followed the group on foot was apparently the first to open fire, Kelly said. That officer had served on the force for five years. One 12-year veteran fired his weapon 31 times, emptying two full magazines, Kelly said. Bell backed the car onto a sidewalk, hitting a building gate, authorities said. He then drove forward, striking the police vehicle a second time, Kelly said. The police department's policy on shooting at moving vehicles states: "Police officers shall not discharge their firearms at or from a moving vehicle unless deadly force is being used against the police officers or another person present, by means other than a moving vehicle." BUSINESS More shoppers take advantage of discounts ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK — Retailers got what they wanted during the Thanksgiving weekend — a strong start to the 2006 holiday shopping season as consumers crowded stores in search of huge discounts on flat-screen TVs and other hot merchandise. Stores and malls that opened as early as midnight on Friday drew a bigger-than-expected turnout, and robust sales for the first day of the season offset slower business as the weekend wore on, according to early reports. The biggest winners appeared to be electronics chains such as Best Buy Co. Inc. and popular-priced department stores including J.C. Penney Co., which pulled in shopers with good deals. Yet Wal-Mart Stores Inc., which promised the most aggressive discounting ever, was an exception, announcing Saturday that same-store sales for November will be slightly below its already lackluster forecast. Wal-Mart has struggled for months to appeal to both higher-income shoppers and low-price fans. The question for the retail industry overall is whether the bargain hunters who raided stores for early bird specials during the weekend will have the same zeal as they shop between now and the end of the season, when the discounts may not be as steep. As for Black Friday, C. Britt Beemer, chairman of America's Research Group, speculated that Wal-Mart customers might have looked only for special offers and so didn't shop the entire store. A clearer picture of how retailers' sales fared during the Thanksgiving weekend will emerge Thursday, when merchants report monthly sales results for November. "Consumers wanted bargains, and more bargains," said Beemer. 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