The New York Daily News ( http://www.nydailynews.com/2002-04-11/News_and_Views/Crime_File/a-147249.asp) and the New York Post ( http://www.nypost.com/news/regionalnews/14181.htm) ran different articles on the same story.
Gloria Aiken-Logan
GRIEVING NIECE:
Natala Prince yesterday cradles
a photo of her aunt, Gloria Logan,
an innocent bystander who was
slain on Tuesday night in Brooklyn.
Article from The Post:
April 11, 2002 -- A 66-year-old devout Jehovah's Witness was caught in the crossfire and killed by gun-toting drug dealers as she got off the bus on her way home from services, police said yesterday.
Relatives said longtime Bedford-Stuyvesant resident Gloria Aiken Logan was never fearful of the crime and drugs that surrounded her Quincy Street apartment.
"She had no fear. She always said the Lord would protect her," said her sister Janette McFarlene of Maryland. Logan was shot in the head Tuesday night after getting off a bus around the corner from her home.
Family and friends gathered at Logan's home to pay their respects to her grieving son, 26-year-old David Logan, who was too distressed to speak about his mother's death.
Police Commissioner Ray Kelly called the shooting death "a terrible tragedy. The woman was not involved . . . She was just getting off the bus."
Logan, one of six brothers and six sisters, immigrated to the U.S. from Trinidad 34 years ago.
She worked mostly as a baby-sitter and loved to cook for family and friends, said her sister. Logan had been attending the Kingdom Hall on Madison Street for at least 20 years.
"No matter how depressing the situation would get, she would always be positive," said her grieving sister. "She always looked on the bright side."
Logan lived in a three-story brownstone apartment house with her two brothers and son. The family moved in three years ago and were working together to renovate the building.
Police were canvassing the neighborhood.
Trevor Herne, A 24-year-old man from North Babylon, L.I., was believed to have been arguing with the shooter and was shot in the leg. Cops said they found drugs nearby.
Cops said the two men were fighting when Logan got off the bus.
"She was walking in the opposite direction and was behind one of the men. She was walking away when one of the shots hit in her the head," said a police source. At least three shots were fired.
Herne told police he was being followed when he was wounded. However, police say Herne was being "uncooperative" in helping them find the shooter. Herne is in stable condition at Kings County Hospital.
"I'm in disbelief," Logan's niece Natala Prince, 22, said. "The tears can't even flow. I can't believe she is gone."
Prince said her aunt was the matriarch of the family. "She was the mother of everyone. She helped raised all her nieces and nephews. Her goal was to always keep the family together. She taught me that nothing comes easy in life, and without God, nothing can be done."