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Recent Examples of assailant
Investigators believe that an armed assailant entered the location and fired a gun, and then fled the scene, police said.
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Shambhavi Rimal, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 26 Jan. 2025
And despite police’s efforts to guard Giancana’s house, he was shot multiple times and killed about 11 p.m. on June 19, 1975 by an unknown assailant while in his basement kitchen, cooking sausage and peppers.
—Bob Goldsborough, Chicago Tribune, 25 Jan. 2025
Wouldn’t his assailant break a toe kicking that six-pack?
—Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 16 Jan. 2025
As the screaming continued, the terrified neighbor, 44, shooed her young sons away from the door and looked through the peephole into the hallway, watching as the assailant stabbed the helpless woman in the back of her neck with a knife at least 8 inches long.
—Ellen Moynihan, New York Daily News, 1 Feb. 2025
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Shambhavi Rimal, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 26 Jan. 2025
And despite police’s efforts to guard Giancana’s house, he was shot multiple times and killed about 11 p.m. on June 19, 1975 by an unknown assailant while in his basement kitchen, cooking sausage and peppers.
—Bob Goldsborough, Chicago Tribune, 25 Jan. 2025
Wouldn’t his assailant break a toe kicking that six-pack?
—Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 16 Jan. 2025
As the screaming continued, the terrified neighbor, 44, shooed her young sons away from the door and looked through the peephole into the hallway, watching as the assailant stabbed the helpless woman in the back of her neck with a knife at least 8 inches long.
—Ellen Moynihan, New York Daily News, 1 Feb. 2025
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“Assailant.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/assailant. Accessed 21 Feb. 2025.
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