Download or read book The Shooting of Rabbit Wells written by William Loizeaux and published by Arcade Publishing. This book was released on 1998 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On a frigid winter's night in 1972, in a peaceful and prosperous New Jersey community, William "Rabbit" Wells was accidentally killed by a policeman. What put a white cop and a black youth on a tragic collision course? Looking for the "why" of Rabbit's death, William Loizeaux tells a story of such stirring empathy and terrible beauty that it reaches out to us across a quarter century and cries out its relevance for today.