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A Single Shot

Shot‘s sights are set on John (Sam Rockwell), a dirt-poor hunter who mistakes a young woman for a deer — not necessarily a negative except that a trigger was involved and John’s aim is true. When he tends to her dead body, he finds a lot of cash next to her and assumes it won’t be missed. […]

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Shot with his own gun

Credit: Brad Gregg Colbert told police the shooting occurred while he sat in his car in a convenience store parking lot near S.E. 44th Street and Shields Boulevard. The 36-year-old said he had been preparing to sell the weapon, which he’d purchased in Kansas, and — like any good salesman — was testing first to […]

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Exploring ambiguity

One of the biggest stories of Pulitzer Prize-winner Anthony Shadid’s life is the one he never wrote. In March 2002, while covering the increasing violence in the West Bank city of Ramallah, Shadid was shot in the left shoulder. The bullet damaged some of his vertebrae before exiting his right shoulder, and instead of turning […]

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Basic instinct

How could it not? A recently widowed 18-year-old mother in Blanchard shot a man dead after he broke into her house. On New Year’s Eve, Sarah McKinley called 911 after a Blanchard man, Justin Shane Martin, allegedly tried breaking down the front door. McKinley, who was in the trailer home with her 3-month-old son, had […]

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