〔史料〕路上で怪死したニューヨーク・タイムズの政治記者

２００６年１月。

「ワシントン･ポスト」紙によると、「ニューヨーク・タイムズ」紙のワシントン支局のベテラン記者David Rosenbaum
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Rosenbaum
が、ワシントン市内の最も安全な地域の街路で変死し、当初は脳卒中か心臓発作のせいで死んだと思われていたが、捜査の進展で「強盗に遭って殺された」という結論になったのだが…。



☆Medical Condition Suspected at First In Journalist's Fall
（米紙「ワシントン･ポスト」）

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/01/09/AR2006010901245_pf.html

http://www.asyura2.com/0601/war77/msg/468.html

D.C. police and emergency workers initially believed that David E. Rosenbaum had a stroke or seizure when they found the longtime journalist on a sidewalk in Northwest Washington on Friday night. Several hours elapsed before they realized he apparently had been beaten and robbed, authorities said yesterday.

The confusion cost police time that could have been spent combing the neighborhood for robbery suspects. It was not until Rosenbaum, a retired New York Times reporter and editor, was evaluated at Howard University Hospital that the authorities viewed him as a crime victim.

Rosenbaum, 63, died Sunday. Police said they believe that he died from a severe head injury sustained during a mugging and that they are treating the case as a homicide. They said they were awaiting autopsy results for more information. No arrests have been made.

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★「Ｕ．Ｓ．　Ｎｅｗｓｗｉｒｅ」の記事「Gun Bans Kill; D.C. Newsman Is Latest Victim, So It's News, Says CCRKBA」

http://releases.usnewswire.com/GetRelease.asp?id=59027

BELLEVUE, Wash., Jan. 9 /U.S. Newswire/ -- The District of Columbia's gun ban has claimed another victim, and this time a veteran newsman has died, all because criminals know citizens in the nation's capitol cannot fight back, the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms (CCRKBA) said today.

"Our hearts and prayers go out to the family of veteran New York Times reporter and editor David E. Rosenbaum, who died Sunday from injuries he suffered during a brutal robbery Friday night near his home in northwest Washington, D.C.," said CCRKBA Chairman Alan M. Gottlieb, who is also publisher of Gun Week, a nationally circulated firearms newspaper. "We cannot know whether Mr. Rosenbaum would ever have kept a gun for personal protection, but we do know that every law-abiding citizen now living in the District can't. And we also know that for years, criminals have taken advantage of this environment of public disarmament, as hungry wolves prey on defenseless sheep.