Word: gunman
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...textbooks. Then came another bang. Then another. The other students in the room looked up in sudden, knowing panic. No one could speak. The teacher in charge, Neva Rogers, walked to the door, turned the lock and shut off the lights. She too sensed what was happening. A gunman was in the school, and he was heading their...
...flight attendant for T.W.A. whose courage and calm determination saved lives when Lebanese gunmen hijacked Flight 847 en route from Athens to Rome on June 14, 1985, and held the plane in Beirut for 17 days, killing one; of cancer; in Tucson, Ariz. Taking charge, Derickson soothed a gunman by singing a German ballad he requested, intervened to stop the beatings of passengers and used her Shell credit card to pay $5,500 for the plane's refueling...
...game JFK Reloaded [Dec. 6]. It is absolutely despicable that people would make a computer game about a real-life tragedy like the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. The creators of the game seem to accept the Warren Commission's finding that Lee Harvey Oswald was the lone gunman involved, even though many documentaries question that conclusion. JFK Reloaded makes killing seem like a game, and is very insensitive to the surviving Kennedys and all who admired Kennedy's presidency...
KILLED. "DIMEBAG" DARRELL ABBOTT, 38, Grammy-nominated heavy-metal guitarist of the 1990s metal band Pantera; by a gunman, Nathan Gale, 25, who charged the stage during a concert in Columbus, Ohio, also killing three others before a police officer shot and killed him. Abbott, who was playing with his new band, Damageplan, was known for his short, explosive solos and for melding speed-metal with blues and other genres. Some witnesses said Gale was screaming at Abbott, blaming him for Pantera's 2003 breakup...
...neighbor, who asked that her name not be used because the gunman is still at large and thought to be living on her street, said she initially assumed the exchange she overheard between a female and a male talking outside was harmless...