Word: gunman
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...Panic descended on the sprawling campus, which serves 10,000 students, as the gunman randomly shot at students near the entrance atrium and the adjoining cafeteria...
...lunch-hour shooting spree at Dawson left one woman dead and 20 wounded before police officers fatally shot 25-year-old gunman Kimveer Gill, of Fabreville, north of Montreal. Anastasia Desousa, 18, of Montreal, was pronounced dead at the scene, although police would not confirm her identity. Police said Gill's car was found parked near Dawson. Investigators have ruled out terrorism and racial or gender targeting, and are searching for a motive in what seems to be developing into Canada's Columbine shooting...
...officers investigating an unrelated drug crime nearby serendipitously spotted the gunman and followed him into the college, Delorme said. More officers arrived three minutes later and the force deployed more than 100 officers, SWAT teams and canine units, who cordoned off surrounding blocks and secured the building...
Although Pac lived the so-called “thug life” and predicted that he would die at a young age (he was 25 when his car was ambushed by a gunman in Las Vegas), he should not be remembered as a martyr or a prophet. Hip hop fans worshipped him, but he should not be remembered as a hero, either. Pac should be remembered because he articulated his confusion and rage so well. His music reflects the complexity of a life spent trying to reconcile a career that brought great fame and riches with a youth...
...superficially plausible both because of the plague of Islamic jihadism and because of our memory of Sirhan Sirhan, the Palestinian who in 1968 shot Robert F. Kennedy because, he said, of Bobby's support for Israel in the Six-Day War. If Sirhan was indeed the lone gunman, then the assassination (which is dramatized in the Emilio Estevez movie Bobby, also playing in Toronto) could be said to mark the birth of Arab terrorism on U.S. soil...