gun down
phrasal verb
gunned down; gunning down; guns down
: to shoot (someone) with a gun
He was gunned down in the street.
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Police identified a suspect Thursday in the fatal shooting of Sincere Campbell, a 17-year-old boy who was gunned down outside a deli a block away from his family’s Bronx home in 2024.
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Colin Mixson, New York Daily News, 13 Feb. 2026
Gaetano Milano, a sharpshooting young gangster who renounced the mafia and experienced a religious rebirth after gunning down one of New England’s most ruthless mob bosses, died early this week.
—Edmund H. Mahony, Hartford Courant, 12 Feb. 2026
The death-penalty trial of the man who barged into a nail salon and gunned down a 10-year-old boy during a robbery abruptly ended on Tuesday, after prosecutors rested their case.
—Grethel Aguila, Miami Herald, 11 Feb. 2026
The victim, Chrystofer Whyte, had collected nearly 100,000 followers on TikTok when he was gunned down on the beach at Pier Village on June 12, 2025.
—Jessica Schladebeck, Mercury News, 10 Feb. 2026
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Colin Mixson, New York Daily News, 13 Feb. 2026
Gaetano Milano, a sharpshooting young gangster who renounced the mafia and experienced a religious rebirth after gunning down one of New England’s most ruthless mob bosses, died early this week.
—Edmund H. Mahony, Hartford Courant, 12 Feb. 2026
The death-penalty trial of the man who barged into a nail salon and gunned down a 10-year-old boy during a robbery abruptly ended on Tuesday, after prosecutors rested their case.
—Grethel Aguila, Miami Herald, 11 Feb. 2026
The victim, Chrystofer Whyte, had collected nearly 100,000 followers on TikTok when he was gunned down on the beach at Pier Village on June 12, 2025.
—Jessica Schladebeck, Mercury News, 10 Feb. 2026
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“Gun down.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/gun%20down. Accessed 15 Feb. 2026.
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