Word: gunman
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...gunmen, authorities said, then took an unknown number of hostages in a supermarket. One gunman was taken into custody, said a police spokeswoman...
Brown did not know the circumstances of the one gunman's arrest...
...camouflage hunting cap approached the horseshoe-shaped meeting table. Whipping out a pistol, he shot one councilman in the head. As city officials ducked for cover, he fired eight more shots. When police arrived they found Mayor Edward King, 53, dead and two council members gravely injured. The gunman, Ralph Orin Davis, 69, had been angry with the city over a backed-up sewer...
...GUNMAN FIRED TWO MORE SHOTS FROM A HOMEMADE PISTOL, SECURITY FORCES awoke to the threat. They grabbed a green-clad man who, from the evidence of a tube of toothpaste and a water jug found nearby, had spent the night hiding in the gardens. The Prime Minister and his wife were rushed into a car and driven to safety...
Several hours later police identified the comatose gunman as Michel Vaujour, 35, perhaps France's most notorious criminal and a four-time escapee from French justice. Convicted of crimes ranging from theft to attempted murder, Vaujour made a spectacular prison getaway last May by clinging to the skid of a helicopter piloted by his wife Nadine. The onetime highflyer, who had 28 years yet to serve, could face up to 20 more years if convicted on bank-robbery charges...