Corrupt Cop Who Shot Girlfriend Had More Victims on List

031709bowens2.jpg The crooked cop accused of fatally shooting his girlfriend and wounding her friend with a bullet to the head had even bigger plans. After officers arrested Jerry Bowens last week, they discovered a hit list of names titled "Dead Pool"—an allusion to a similar list in Dirty Harry. Bowens, a former NYPD narcotics officer who resigned last year in the face of corruption charges, apparently had three other victims in his sights. Two more of his girlfriend's female friends made the list because Bowens suspected them of setting her up with other men. And police sources tell the Post that number five on the list was an Internal Affairs Bureau cop who exposed Bowens's corruption, which involved stealing drugs from suspects and giving them to his own informants, including one who says she had sex with him. The last name was Bowen himself. His plan, apparently, was to commit suicide by cop after killing the IAB officer. But it was not to be; he's currently being held on a suicide watch at Bellevue.

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There's goes any chance of an insanity plea. Looks like murder 1.

Yeah, this is good news. Shows that it was premeditated. The only thing that would have been better would be if he had started at the bottom of the list.

It's good that he wrote everything down so he could remember it later. Big ups to his third grade teacher.

"he's currently being held on a suicide watch at Bellevue." I hear Dunkin Donuts is having a half price sale.

Is that Xzibit?

You've officially been pimped.

I remember the movie The dead pool. last of the eighties dirty harry movies. it had liam neeson and jim carrey in it.

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