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shooting spree en · NOUN
Meanings
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The random shooting of multiple people with no obvious motive.
A man charged with a drive-by shooting spree in Queens over the weekend that left one man dead and at least four others injured told the police that he got his gun from Lucifer and that he was reacting to “red cars closing in,” according to prosecutors at a bedside arraignment yesterday at Bellevue Hospital Center in Manhattan, where he was being held without bail.
2006 August 30, Corey Kilgannon, “Shooting-Spree Suspect Cited Devil’s Influence, Police Say”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
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mass shooting