NEW YORK -- A man charged with shooting a recent college graduate dead as he fled from gunfire on a New York City street has pleaded not guilty to murder.
Khalid Rahman entered his plea Tuesday in the death of Matt Shaw. Defense lawyer Daniel Scott says Rahman was misidentified as the gunman.
The 21-year-old Shaw was killed in Harlem July 5. He graduated in May from Le Moyne College in Syracuse.
The Manhattan district attorney's office says Rahman opened fire and hit a parked car while approaching a group of people on a street. Prosecutors say the 20-year-old Rahman then shot Shaw in the back as the graduate started to run.
Scott says Rahman had no quarrel with Shaw and mourns his loss.
Shaw planned to go to graduate school in economics.
