The city’s most famous subway vigilante said on Wednesday that a retired corrections officer seemed justified in gunning down a man in a Brooklyn subway station.
Bernie GoetzDavid McGlynn “It sounds like they wanted trouble, or they were looking for trouble, and they picked the wrong guy,” Bernie Goetz, 67, told The Post.
“If you go looking for trouble in New York City, sometimes you will find it.”
On Tuesday evening, Willie Groomes, 69, fatally shot Gilbert Drogheo, 32, as the two tussled on the mezzanine level of the Borough Hall subway station.
The fight started on a downtown 4 train, when Drogheo and a friend harassed Groomes on the subway car, police sources said.
Goetz said Groomes likely had no choice but to shoot him.
“When people are right on top of you, you don’t have the option of firing a warning shot,” he said. “You shoot as many as you can, as quickly as you can.”
Goetz shot four black teens inside a subway train car in 1984, claiming it was self defense because they were trying to mug him.
He was acquitted of attempted murder.
