Word: gunshots
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...prey: an average of four a day are killed. The most shocking attack came around midnight two weeks ago in Rio. Five men opened fire on a group of 50 sleeping children, killing three, ages 11, 14 and 17, on the spot. Two more died in the hospital from gunshot wounds to the head. Two other boys were dragged into a car and shot, their bodies dumped a mile away. An eighth boy died five days later, never waking from a coma...
...streets for one more night. "The hour is getting late, and our children need us," says John Foster, a vice president of the city employees union, who founded the group four years ago after his son was badly beaten. The prayer is interrupted by the sound of a gunshot, followed shortly by the wail of an ambulance. Foster shakes his head. "It's becoming so common," he says. "Some of our young people are turning into cold-blooded killers...
...weeks later, as Foster patrols the largely black, working-class neighborhoods in north Omaha, a gunshot crackles through the air. Foster turns the corner. A mother and three children run toward his car. "Some kids are shooting at people just down the street there," says the woman, pointing nervously. Foster circles the block, slowing as he approaches a pack of kids mingling in front of a house. "We were just having a party, a birthday party," says one, "when these guys drive by and start shooting at us." Twenty minutes later and only blocks away, Foster comes upon a teenage...
...topic as our troubled millennium ticks away) civilization is banging and whimpering toward its well-deserved end. The characters are Kraft, a harried, too sensitive surgeon-in-training; Espera, a gallant nurse; and an appalling procession of dying children. The doomed kids arrive by ambulance and taxi, bleeding from gunshot wounds, septic with cancers both physical and psychological, withering from every disease in the manual. Kraft prunes and hacks and catheterizes; Espera listens and comforts; the children bleed and expire...
...panelists showed slides of dead East Timorese women and children, including one particularly graphic photo of an infant who had been killed by a gunshot wound to the head...