Richard Jensen

Death by Force

Late on the evening of December 6 1988, 34-year-old Richard Jensen—a White male carpenter—was seated in the living-room of his Lincoln Street house in Riverhead, New York, watching television with his young daughter. Without warning, a blast from a sawed-off shotgun came through the picture window. The shot shredded the window glass, severed the middle fingers of both his hands and drove buckshot into his scalp; those raised hands likely absorbed enough pellets to save his life. Despite th ...Read More

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