Word: gunmen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Somehow, though, the fleeing man struggled to his feet and staggered across the street. By this time, other gunmen had begun to close in. Two approached from the left. Another, brandishing a .45 pistol, appeared in front of a warehouse. Javier ducked into an alley and tried to hide behind an outhouse door. But the masked killer found his prey and finished him off with a burst of gunfire...
...pulled to the curb in a black Lincoln limousine, evidently on their way to a steak house. Three men waiting nearby pulled semiautomatic weapons from under their trench coats and cut them down. Castellano and Belotti each caught six bullets in the head and torso. As two of the gunmen ran down 46th Street toward a getaway car, the third spoke briefly into a walkie-talkie and then coolly fired a coup de grace into Castellano's skull. It took all of 30 seconds...
When Abie Nathan heard that two masked gunmen had stolen $7,000 from St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York City, the visiting Israeli pacifist and philanthropist immediately offered to replace the money. After news of his gift broke, Nathan discovered that a good deed, even in New York, does not go unrewarded. "The manager of my hotel dragged me out of my room and told me I was going to have their best suite," he recounts. Later a cabbie told him that the ride was free. "Imagine!" exclaimed Nathan. "A New York cabdriver...
Claude Guerrero, a Brink's security officer, was watching television in his apartment near Paris one evening last week when four or five gunmen carrying walkie-talkies and wearing masks and bulletproof vests burst into the room. While one of the intruders held his family hostage, Guerrero was whisked away in a car to the Brink's main warehouse where he worked, some 15 miles away in the northwest Paris suburb of Colombes...
...facility's double-door system. Some were in the possession of another Brink's security officer, Yvon Bertoux. Within hours, Bertoux was abducted from the parking lot of his suburban apartment and his son held hostage while Bertoux was taken to the Brink's complex. Once inside, the gunmen managed to overpower four other guards and force Guerrero and Bertoux to help open the safe. The take, an estimated $9.5 million in cash and valuables, was the largest theft of its kind in France since 1980, when burglars took $10.5 million from the Cannes home of Prince Abdel Aziz...