Word: shotgunning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Saturday night I wanted to go to a basketball game. My mother kept arguing about staying out late . . . My mother and I have been arguing and fighting ever since I can remember . . . After dinner I went up into the attic and got my father's .410 shotgun, a bolt-action gun holding four shells . . . My father had left for La Crosse. I put a handful of shells into my pocket and came down the stairs and put the gun in the hall. Ralph Trede called up. He is 17 years old. He asked me if I was going...
...Fifteen-year-old Jerry Sikon of Macomb County, Mich, watched a TV horror mystery as he cleaned his shotgun. Four of his brothers & sisters were also looking on. His father, Deputy Sheriff John Sikon, a former preacher, objected to the program. His mother said it wasn't harmful. Words between the parents led to blows. After the deputy sheriff struck the wife with a paint roller, Jerry slipped a shell into his shotgun and fired at his father. "Don't blame the boy. I was wrong," said the father just before he died...
...from Mars) began leveling its shotgun, a patrolman fired one shot from the hip. The figure fell, shot through the temple...
...rear of the store. Its face was covered by a black mask, dark goggles and a gas respirator. It wore a black helmet decorated by three metal antennas and a skull & crossbones, was dressed in a black shirt, black pants, black boots and black gloves. It carried a shotgun, wore two bone-handled .38s on its hips and a bandoleer of shotgun shells...
...eccentrics were so common that supermarket clerks refused, until too late, to get excited at the appearance of a Man from Mars. But this time the police arrived just as the apparition was leaving the store, clutching $13,675 in a canvas bank bag. As it began leveling its shotgun, a patrolman fired one shot from the hip. The figure fell, shot through the temple. The cops pulled off the mask and helmet, and there lay Forrest Ray Colson-back in uniform. He died two hours later...