***SPOILERS**** Responding to a call on the east side of Manhattan Det. Rick Daly, Sylester "Sly" Stallone, jumps the gun and instead of waiting for back-up rushes to the roof of the building where a man was stabbed to death. That's where the knife wielding attacker Marty Vaughan, Charles Napler, was hiding and in the confusion a number of shots go off one of them hitting and killing 10 year old boy Arthur Stronik, Todd Gross, who was tending his pigeons. Claiming that Vaughn who was still on the loose had fired at him and his response was in self defense not knowing that young Arthur was there has Det. Daly exonerated in court but Arthur family members as well as all or most of the public doesn't buy it.
It's Let. Kojak, Telly "Love Ya Baby" Savalas, who despite Det. Daly being found innocent who goes on his own to find if Det. Daly is really innocent of shooting young Aurther and finds a number of very disturbing facts in the case. It's that Vaughan after he was later caught in the attempted knifing of a policeman never carried a gun on him making Det. Daly's claim of him shooting at him, and him responding with deadly force, a lie!
***SPOILERS*** With Let. Kojak confronting a very nervous and sweaty Det. Daly at the scene of the crime he lets him have it and has Det. Daly tearfully admit that he not only shot Arthur by accident but used a throw away gun that he had on him, that he later threw down the incinerator shout, to get off two more shot at random to make it look like he was in fact shot at. In what was a precursor to his famous mental breakdown scene at the end of the movie "Rambo" some eight years later Stallone as Det. Daly goes into his famous crybaby act blaming everyone including Let. Kojak for his actions and coming across looking and sounding like a first class jerk in doing it! It was bad enough in what he did in shooting young Arthur which under the circumstances was a tragic accident but it was his trying to cover it up with a second gun that ended up cooking his goose.
It's Let. Kojak, Telly "Love Ya Baby" Savalas, who despite Det. Daly being found innocent who goes on his own to find if Det. Daly is really innocent of shooting young Aurther and finds a number of very disturbing facts in the case. It's that Vaughan after he was later caught in the attempted knifing of a policeman never carried a gun on him making Det. Daly's claim of him shooting at him, and him responding with deadly force, a lie!
***SPOILERS*** With Let. Kojak confronting a very nervous and sweaty Det. Daly at the scene of the crime he lets him have it and has Det. Daly tearfully admit that he not only shot Arthur by accident but used a throw away gun that he had on him, that he later threw down the incinerator shout, to get off two more shot at random to make it look like he was in fact shot at. In what was a precursor to his famous mental breakdown scene at the end of the movie "Rambo" some eight years later Stallone as Det. Daly goes into his famous crybaby act blaming everyone including Let. Kojak for his actions and coming across looking and sounding like a first class jerk in doing it! It was bad enough in what he did in shooting young Arthur which under the circumstances was a tragic accident but it was his trying to cover it up with a second gun that ended up cooking his goose.