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3 Detectives to Be Indicted by Grand Jury in Bell Case
By AL BAKER and WILLIAM K. RASHBAUM

A Queens grand jury voted today to indict three city police detectives — two black men and a white man — in the killing of Sean Bell, an unarmed 23-year-old black man who died in a hail of 50 bullets in November, a defense lawyer in the case said.

The detectives who will face charges, Michael Oliver, Gescard F. Isnora and Marc Cooper, were three of five officers who fired bullets into Mr. Bell’s car on Nov. 25 outside a strip club in Jamaica, Queens, hours before Mr. Bell was to be married.

Detective Oliver, 35, fired 31 of the 5o bullets in the shooting and Detective Isnora, 28, opened fire first and shot 11 bullets in total.