Officer who fired first bullet during Sean Bell shooting fired from NYPD
By Phil Corso and Christina Santucci
Fatal shot reclassified to self-inflicted injury
Christopher James, 32, who lived on Thatford Avenue in Brooklyn, entered the supermarket on Metropolitan Avenue in Ridgewood and told store employees that a person he did not recognize had shot him near the store, police said at the time of the shooting.<
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