Dying Pa. Man Confesses to 1995 Slaying

[Champ]

PHILADELPHIA -- A man dying of cancer called police to his bedside to confess that he shot a stranger to death as they argued in a parking lot nine years ago, authorities said.

Prosecutors said William Kovitch, 74, will not be charged because he is too ill to go to court.

Kovitch told detectives last month that he shot the stranger in 1995, apparently after the other man pulled over to complain that Kovitch had bumped his car in traffic.

Kovitch said he fired because he mistakenly thought the man had a weapon, according to prosecutor Diane Gibbons.
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[SheilaT]

1. And of course if the other guy

HAD had a weapon, he could have fired first and would have been safer.