Word: gunman
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...every time you check in for a shift, you don't really know if you're going to go home that night." Two weeks ago, a suspected car thief pointed a 9-mm pistol at Rhodes' partner in the squad car, who then fired a shot at the gunman, forcing him to drop his weapon. "The whole incident took a minute and a half," says Rhodes, "and what raced through my mind was . . . the fact that I was going to get killed in the front seat...
...helped drive him back: Florence Heights, the predominantly white west-side neighborhood he chose in Los Angeles, quickly turned all black after his arrival. And while partitions and signs did not hem in the Hamptons' liberty, crime and congestion eventually did. A family of four was killed when a gunman mistook their home for that of an enemy. Another neighbor, about three doors down, lost a son in a shooting, and rival gang members took revenge on the young man even after his death by riddling his coffin with bullets. The Hamptons' daughter had her car stolen, and police helicopters...
...blazing Holden home they ran into a hail of gunfire that cut down the first five arrivals. The gunman was David Gray, 33, an unemployed farmhand and next-door neighbor of the Holdens. Earlier he had picked an argument with Holden, possibly over the latter's mistreatment of his dog and rabbits. Gray then killed Holden and his elder daughter, 11, and torched the house. As terrified villagers tried to flee, Gray fired at them with five high-powered rifles kept in his kitchen, then began to stalk neighbors' homes. Among those killed was the first policeman to arrive...
Kahane had been speaking to about 60 people at an emergency meeting of the Zionist Emergency Evacuation Rescue Organization. According to police spokesperson Scott Bloch, a gunman entered the second-floor conference room at around 9:05 p.m., and shot Kahane in the head. Kahane was taken to Bellevue hospital, where he was pronounced dead...
...gunman fled the hotel and attempted to hijack a taxi when he was shot by a U.S. Postal Service Police Officer, Bloch said. The postal service officer was shot by the gunman in the ensuing struggle, in which both men were wounded. A bystander in the hotel was also shot and wounded...