Youth Shot by Goetz Seized in Rape, Robbery

NEW YORK — James Ramseur Jr., one of the four teen-agers shot by Bernhard H. Goetz on a subway train, was arrested Friday on charges of raping and robbing a young woman at gunpoint last month, authorities said.

Police arrested Ramseur, 18, after the victim--who was hospitalized for four days after the attack--identified him in a lineup, law enforcement sources said.

Bronx Dist. Atty. Mario Merola, who announced the arrest, said in a statement that Ramseur accosted the 18-year-old victim in an elevator, forced her to a landing leading to the roof and raped and robbed her.

Police said Ramseur was arrested on charges of rape, sodomy, robbery, assault and criminal possession of a gun. A source said police were seeking a second man in the attack.

Ramseur was one of the youths wounded by Goetz in a widely publicized shooting on Dec. 22. Goetz, 37, said he fired in self-defense as the four youths menaced him, but the four said they were only panhandling.

A grand jury refused to indict Goetz for shooting the youths, but a second grand jury impaneled on the basis of new evidence indicted him on charges including attempted murder and assault.