Word: fled
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Hispanic males drew a silver semi-automatic shotgun and pointed it at the group at which point they fled the area...
...dreaded lists of the war dead, except these were survivor lists, and parents were desperate to see, hear anything, called out names, searched for their kids' friends to find out if they knew anything. They called homes, called hospitals, called anywhere they could think. Some of the kids who fled the school early on had gone into hiding at their friends' houses, in such shock that it was hours before they made contact with their parents...
...police had secured the high school, officials from the sheriff's office explained that there were bombs stashed among the bodies and it was too dangerous to go in and move them. And then they asked parents to come back in the morning--with dental records. Two mothers fled the building and threw up outside...
...regular solid citizen," he told the Associated Press. "In his 40s, very clean shaven. I might have taken him for an off-duty policeman." Simpson says he bit the man's hand to make him release the gun and, in the struggle, cut his own. As the man fled in his car, Simpson gave chase in his own vehicle and called police. They instructed Simpson to stop the chase when the assailant starting running red lights. So far, he is still at large. Hopefully for Simpson, the L.A.P.D. shares his spirit of forgiveness: the incident is being investigated...
...fled again, this time to Arizona. Short on cash, he applied for a job at the Fountain Cafe in Mesa, using his real name and Social Security number. Working his charm, he befriended the owners, Mike and Gale Moran, who later told reporters they thought Tom was just wonderful. He always took out the trash, liked to wear the red apron, that sort of thing. They let him drive their car, and he was friends with their daughter. "We had no idea," they would later say, over and over...