Word: gunman
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...terrorists might well pose a greater potential danger to more people, there was much more apprehension of the threat of random shots in the dark from the lone gunman. He has haunted lovers' lanes, attacked couples coming from strobe-lighted discotheques, even opened fire at a pair of girls on a house porch and shot another as he passed her on a street. Twice he taunted police with notes (one left at the scene of a double murder, one sent to Columnist Jimmy Breslin). He has phoned precinct headquarters to say which neighborhood he planned to hit next...
...murderer's methods and motivation. All the victims were young, from 17 to 26. Although three young men were shot, each was with a woman and seemed incidental to the killer's apparent sexual focus. Six of the eight attacks were on parked cars, the gunman approaching from the rear and firing into the front passenger window. Six of the shootings took place on weekend nights. One was as early as 7:30 p.m., the others after midnight. Ballistics tests helped conclude that all eight assaults were almost certainly the work of the same .44 revolver, an easily...
...witnesses and survivors have had more than a fleeting look at the gunman, and their impressions of his appearance have varied confusingly. He is known to be white, about 25 to 33 years old, between 5 ft. 7 in. and 5 ft. 11 in. tall and well built. Police last week updated what they considered to be their most reliable artist's sketch after one witness, identified only as "Tommy Z," said he was parked with a date in front of Stacy's car, saw the gunman's approach in his rear-view mirror and watched helplessly...
Other witnesses claim they saw a gunman jump into a mustard-colored small car and speed away after the seventh assault. A yellow Volkswagen was seen near the site of last week's attack No. 8. Yet more than 25,000 yellow Volkswagens are registered in New York State, and police have little confidence that state computers can narrow the number of owners who also roughly fit the killer's age range and physical description. The job of tracing ownership of the 28,000 Bulldog revolvers made by Charter Arms Corp. of Stratford, Conn., over the past five...
...couples; the use of live decoys was considered too dangerous. Vigilante action was spreading. When a false rumor spread that a man seized by police in a car in Brooklyn for carrying two pistols was Son of Sam, angry crowds swarmed out of bar and threatened to attack the gunman. Police sped away with him for his own protection. The bitter yearning for revenge was widespread. A candy-store owner asked, "You know what I'd do with him?' Then answered: "I'd cut both his legs off and say to the police, 'When you give...