Word: gunman
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Last October a rash of bank holdups and armored-car robberies began in south Dade County. In one incident, a guard manning a Brink's truck was shot in the back by a gunman. As he lay bleeding on the ground, a second man walked up and shot him twice with an automatic rifle. Incredibly, he survived. The crooks often used stolen cars for their getaway vehicles. In two instances the automobiles had belonged to young men who were gunned down while target shooting in an abandoned quarry. The FBI soon joined the Florida police in a search...
...again. "I am Jesus Christ," bellowed the man who shot Pope John Paul II. "All the world will be destroyed." The now familiar outburst came on March 22, the final day of the marathon "Bulgarian connection" trial in Rome. The prosecution's aim: to prove that the Turkish gunman, who was convicted in 1981 of gravely wounding the Pope on May 13 of that year in St. Peter's Square, was working for Bulgarian agents and, by implication, the Soviet Union. The ten-month trial of Agca's alleged accomplices--and of Agca himself for illegal possession of the pistol...
...embassy officials in Rome at the time of the shooting, were safely home in Sofia. Both left Italy shortly before Antonov's arrest as part of what Bulgarian officials called a normal embassy rotation. Two of the four Turkish defendants were also missing. Oral Celik, 27, the reputed second gunman who was photographed running from the scene of the shooting, is still at large. Mafia Boss Bekir Celenk, accused of delivering $1.2 million in cash from the Bulgarians to Agca, died last October of a heart attack in a Turkish prison. That left Bagci, 40, and Musa Serdar Celebi...
About 300 people, many from the Harvard community and consular corps, gathered for the service in memory of the 59-year-old Social Democrat who was shot and killed February 28 by an unidentified gunman...
...election was marred by violence, which continued yesterday. A gunman fired at about 50 Aquino supporters in an open truck from which Aquino had delivered a speech earlier, killing a 20-year-old man and wounding a woman...