Word: gunshots
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...BEACH: The murder of a gay doctor about 15 miles away from the site where Gianni Versace was gunned down is not the work of Andrew Cunanan, authorities said late Thursday. Police now say the doctor, who died from "trauma" to the upper part of his body, not a gunshot wound, may have been killed in a domestic dispute with his brother. Although eyewitnesses reported seeing a man who looked like Cunanan flee the scene, police downplayed the sighting, saying many men in Miami fit his description. Meanwhile, police hotlines continued to be inundated with alleged sightings of the suspected...
...night of their 10th wedding anniversary, and they are giving--or are supposed to be giving--a party to celebrate the occasion. The first guests, Ken Gorman (Jed Silverstein '97) and wife Chris (Abigail H. Gray '99), arrive just in time to hear the sound of a gunshot. Upon rushing up to the bedroom, they discover that Charlie, for motives unknown, has shot himself in the ear. Myra is nowhere to be seen...
...prevent the newcomers from learning of Charlie's apparent suicide attempt--for attempted suicide is a criminal offense and, more importantly, a potential scandal for poor Charlie and Myra, not to mention the guests. But the bumbling attempts at a cover-up, further jeopardized by a second, accidental gunshot, dissolve into utter chaos with the end of Act One. Act Two confronts all the couples with the necessity of explaining matters to a pair of police officers...
With tens of thousands of civilians armed to their caps or babushkas, the citizenry had turned into the proverbial mob with many heads but no brains. Hospitals have treated gunshot wounds day and night. Many people retreated from the streets altogether, but a housewife washing dishes in the city of Elbasan was reportedly killed by random gunfire...
DIED. LAURENCE AUSTIN, 70ish, silent-film devotee; of gunshot wounds inflicted during a holdup in his theater; in Los Angeles. The son of pre-talkie actor William Austin, he owned the only theater in Los Angeles that played films made in the era before sound...