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Nearly eight years after a gunman murdered 17 students and faculty at the Parkland high school, one lawsuit remains to be resolved, a legal action that is supposed to answer a question that has been asked ever since the last bullet was fired.
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Rafael Olmeda, Sun Sentinel, 10 Feb. 2026
Surveillance video showed a masked gunman, who is believed to be Mangione, shooting him.
—Rachel Wolf , Maria Paronich , Louis Casiano, FOXNews.com, 6 Feb. 2026
The gunman was eventually wounded by another member of the National Guard and arrested.
—Jessica Schladebeck, New York Daily News, 4 Feb. 2026
The news release marked the first time sheriff’s officials identified the gunman found dead in the two-story home in the 5400 block of Mill Water Circle in Rancho Cordova.
—Rosalio Ahumada, Sacbee.com, 29 Jan. 2026
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Rafael Olmeda, Sun Sentinel, 10 Feb. 2026
Surveillance video showed a masked gunman, who is believed to be Mangione, shooting him.
—Rachel Wolf , Maria Paronich , Louis Casiano, FOXNews.com, 6 Feb. 2026
The gunman was eventually wounded by another member of the National Guard and arrested.
—Jessica Schladebeck, New York Daily News, 4 Feb. 2026
The news release marked the first time sheriff’s officials identified the gunman found dead in the two-story home in the 5400 block of Mill Water Circle in Rancho Cordova.
—Rosalio Ahumada, Sacbee.com, 29 Jan. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for gunman
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In any kidnapping case, paying a ransom does not guarantee a victim's return or that there will be an opportunity to catch the perpetrator.—
Chris Kenning,
USA Today,
8 Feb. 2026
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The Russian figure attempted to wrest the weapon away and was shot again in the chest before the perpetrator fled, the report noted, according to the AP.—
Alex Nitzberg,
FOXNews.com,
6 Feb. 2026
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Simpson then directed one of his friends to follow Palmer's car and the other friend to retrieve his gun, court records say.—
Amanda Lee Myers,
USA Today,
12 Feb. 2026
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Everett Police Officer Daniel Wall fired his gun multiple times at 33-year-old Malden man Admilson Vizcaino amid the chaotic scene last summer.—
Rick Sobey,
Boston Herald,
11 Feb. 2026
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In the days after Kirk’s death, politicians, law enforcement, and many media outlets tried to parse the meaning of the assassin’s inscriptions—to find a motive or assign blame.—
Charlie Warzel,
The Atlantic,
14 Feb. 2026
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As Malcolm navigates the moral complexities of his creation, he is hunted by an unrelenting assassin from the future which forever alters the fate of his three children, reads Netflix’s synopsis.—
Denise Petski,
Deadline,
13 Feb. 2026
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Netherlands Ministry of Defense Last year, Norway's Princess Ingrid Alexandria finished 15-months of service as a gunner in an engineering battalion.—
Frank Andrews,
CBS News,
5 Feb. 2026
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Imagine how Trump’s words affected the mother of Danish machine-gunner Sophia Bruun, killed in action in 2010 at the age of 22, who fought alongside British army troops in the battlefront province of Helmand.—
Trudy Rubin,
Mercury News,
31 Jan. 2026
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Despite the wholesale change in how California sentences juvenile offenders, outrage over the crime has not faded.—
Kelly Davis,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
8 Feb. 2026
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In 2024, the Associated Press reported that inmates at a Virginia facility that predominantly holds mentally ill offenders were hospitalized for hypothermia at least 13 times over the course of three years.—
N'dea Yancey-Bragg,
USA Today,
8 Feb. 2026
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Violence is widespread in the city proper, with large encampments where meth and other drugs are readily available and criminals reportedly exploit the city’s free bus system to carry out offenses.—
Michael Ruiz , Adriana James-Rodil,
FOXNews.com,
13 Feb. 2026
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Godwin is well known in the space, having assisted law enforcement nationwide leading to the removal of hundreds of criminals from the streets.—
Max Goldbart,
Deadline,
13 Feb. 2026
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The West African nation has been fighting an insurgency for more than a decade, with Boko Haram and its splinter group, the Islamic State of West Africa Province, in addition to several amorphous groups commonly referred to as bandits.—
Pelumi Salako,
Los Angeles Times,
6 Feb. 2026
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In the end, Al-Sufyani drove off the bandits, who only managed to grab two small packages.—
Kerry Burke,
New York Daily News,
3 Feb. 2026
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But this was always a fraud issue, not an immigration issue, and the White House wrongly assumed that the perps mostly were in the U.S. without legal permission; on the contrary, most of them were and are U.S. citizens or permanent residents or legal refugees.—
The Editorial Board,
Chicago Tribune,
26 Jan. 2026
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Damien orders — which also happens to be the title of de Araújo’s autobiographical segment for The Moth — before dashing after the perp.—
Peter Debruge,
Variety,
24 Jan. 2026
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“Gunman.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gunman. Accessed 15 Feb. 2026.
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