Hill Street Blues

In de jaren tachtig van de vorige eeuw keken we veel naar deze zeer populaire TV-serie. Zaterdagmorgen 8 juli 1989 stonden Erica en ik er plotseling zelf in met als verschil dat nu alles echt was.
De Boston Herald, Sunday, July 9, 1989:
TOURIST SHOT IN T STATION ROB TRY
By Doreen Iudica
A TOURIST from the Netherlands - in Boston less than 24 hours - was seriously injured in the Symphony MBTA station yesterday after fending off a gunman who tried to rob him, police said.
Willem Duvekot, 54 of Holland was standing at the Green Line stop with his wife, Erika, at 8:30 a.m. waiting for a trolley to sightsee, when a man stuck a gun in his face and demanded his knapsack, police said.
When Duvekot refused to his hand over the bag, the suspect fired a shot and a bullet grazed the left side of Duvekot's head, MBTA police sources said. The men then began fist-fighting.
"We are just very scared," a nervous Erika Duvekot said as she stood by her husband's side in the Boston City Hospital emergency room, her dress splattered with blood.
"We might cut our trip short and go back to our country. I'm scared for my husband. It was awful what happened."
As the two men rolled around on the platform, the suspect used the butt of his gun to hit Duvekot over the head four to six times, causing extensive injuries, police said.
Witnesses told police Erika Duvekot screamed at the man to stop attacking her husband and tried to pull him off of the victim, but no avail. She was not hurt.
After about five minutes of fighting, police said, the suspect struggled free from Duvekot, who was "getting the best of him," and fled from the station in an unknown direction. Nothing was stolen from the couple. The suspect is described as a black male, 20-25 years old, 5 feet 10 inches tall, 140 pounds, wearing jeans and a denim jacket.
"This was some welcome to Boston," an MBTA police officer commented. The couple had arrived in the Hub Friday to begin a seven-week tour of the area.
Duvekot was treated for multiple head injuries, bumps and bruises before being released from BCH late yesterday afternoon, a hospital spokesman said.
The violent attack comes just a week after Karen A. Edwards 34, a tourist from North Clearwater, Fla., was stabed to death in her room at the Lenox Hotel on June 1. Edwards, who was travelling alone, was visiting Boston as part of a two-week vacation. No arrests have been made in her death.