drive-by shooting

noun

1. an incident in which a person, building, or vehicle is shot at by someone in a moving vehicle Sometimes shortened todrive-by

Example Sentences

On Sept. 7, 1996, Tupac was targeted and killed in a drive-by shooting in Las Vegas.

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A week earlier, a drive-by shooting had rocked that same neighborhood, taking five lives and injuring four.

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In Katameya Heights in New Cairo, residents reported a drive-by shooting that killed at least one policeman.

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Marine 1st Lt. Therrell Shane Childers was killed in Iraq on March 21, 2003, in the wartime equivalent of a drive-by shooting.

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In early 2008, Shiite militiamen gunned down my husband in a drive-by shooting.

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