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How to use the word Shooter in a Sentence?

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The stand your ground action, under the laws of Missouri, are completely inapplicable to this case, because there has been no conversation, not from the suspect, not from the victim and not from law enforcement, that Ralph Yarl, at 16 years old, ever posed a threat to this shooter.

Lee Merritt

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I want to speak directly to whoever the shooter is, turn yourself in. The best thing for you to do is to turn yourself in. We know that this will not end well. The best case scenario is for you to turn yourself in and stop this.

Paul Humphrey

Found on CNN
1 year ago

If the system could stop for Gina, the system could not work properly for this killer, then surely the system had to change, we know it’s not going to affect the Parkland shooter; it’s not going to affect my family. But future families – why should they suffer like we have?

Tony Montalto

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I saw people running and then some others got out (of) their car and began to run as well, then I heard police yelling and telling people there was a shooter at the bank and to back away.

Hagan Curd

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The only victims this shooter was able to get to were victims that were stuck in some sort of open area or hallway, several were able to evacuate safely. The ones that couldn’t do that safely did exactly what they were taught and trained to do.

Brink Fidler

Found on CNN
1 year ago

As a teacher, I’ve imagined that scene in my own classroom, again and again, at the start of each semester, I’m sure all of you in here who are teachers do this, you explain to your students on the first day a path, a pathway, to get out if a shooter comes into the school so that they’re prepared.

Joe Biden

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Often the one at foot will hop away because it’s terrified as its mother has just been shot. Now the chances of the shooter catching that little joey and killing it is slim, so it dies from predation, starvation and exposure.

Mark Pearson

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We are essentially at our last line of defense, which is: Can the police stop a shooter from killing more people than he otherwise would have absent this kind of training? that’s going to be our standard of success.

Juliette Kayyem

Found on CNN
1 year ago

This basically involves a 3-year-old and a 4-year-old, the 3-year-old is the alleged shooter. It appears to be unintentional.

Harris County Sheriff Ed Gonzalez

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The teacher was presenting a lesson and all of sudden I heard gunshots directly behind me. That’s when the shooter opened the back classroom door and started firing at my classmates in the back, wounding them. I smelled and saw the gunpowder, i thought I was going to die.

Claire Papoulias

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We have fire drills in schools generally, every month. We have active shooter drills. But we do not in most schools have sudden cardiac arrest drills.

Victoria Vetter

Found on CNN
1 year ago

These people were clearly shot in the head, and they were also shot in places that the shooter would know that quick death would occur.

Tulare County Sheriff Mike Boudreaux

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We’re going to get scrutinized, I ’m expecting that. We’re getting scrutinized for why we did n’t go in there, i know what the firepower [ the shooter ] had, based on what shells I saw, the holes in the wall in Situation Room next to his. I also know I had students that were around there that were n’t in the immediate threat besides the ones I know were in the immediate threat and the preservation of life around, everything around him, I felt was priority.

Chief Pete Arredondo

Found on CNN
1 year ago

This great replacement theory was the motivator for the shooting in Buffalo. Where that shooter had all these great replacement theory writings that JD Vance agrees with.

Tim Ryan

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

We prepare for storms. We prepare for an active shooter. We prepare for traffic accidents. We prepare for a hazardous material incidents.

Though Koskinas

Found on CNN
1 year ago

In public testimony before the Senate Committee to Protect Texas, I stated that the law enforcement response to the active shooter attack at Robb Elementary School was an abject failure.

Public Safety Director Steven McCraw

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We have no evidence of previous threats or prior knowledge of the shooter, we received information about the shooter's writings after the incident had taken place and the shooter has no criminal history in the area.

Ethan Blair Miller

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I am raising voice for my brother because I do not want any other's brother to become victim of those shooters, any sister to become victim of those shooters, any mom or dad to become victim of shooter.

Naeem Hussain

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I saw a massive amount of people running up from security checkpoint and people yelling' shooter,' tSA employees rushed us out of a side door and just started sprinting away from the building.

Michael Loewinsohn

Found on CNN
1 year ago

No Uvalde police officers had any opportunity to take a shot at the gunman, a Uvalde Police Department officer saw someone outside but was unsure of who he saw and observed children in the area as well. Ultimately, it was a coach with children on the playground, not the shooter.

Uvalde Mayor Don McLaughlin

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

You see a lot of similarities I guess with the shooting, brady, he's like an all-time shooter. But Pete Nance -LRB- 22 -RRB-, Pete Nance -LRB- 22 -RRB- can really shoot the ball. Pete Nance -LRB- 22 -RRB- can score from a bunch of different levels.

Armando Bacot

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Again, there’s an active shooter at the club I was at, so we had to run over here to this concert.

Craig Robinson

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

I’m performing at the Comedy Zone in Charlotte, North Carolina. There was an active shooter in the comedy club, so, they moved us over – and the concert’s going on. It’s ‘Big Time Rush.’ So, I thought I would share it with you all.

Craig Robinson

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

No Uvalde County police department officer saw the shooter on May 24 prior to him entering Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, no Uvalde County police officers had any opportunity to take a shot at the gunman.

Uvalde Mayor Don McLaughlin

Found on CNN
1 year ago

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