drive-by killing


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Noun1.drive-by killing - homicide committed by shooting from a moving automobile
shooting - killing someone by gunfire; "when the shooting stopped there were three dead bodies"
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Chancey Luna, 18, was convicted of the August 2013 drive-by killing of Christopher Lane, then a 22-year-old student at East Central University as he was jogging along a residential road in Duncan, about 80 miles southwest of Oklahoma City.
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In a press conference held in Sana'a, Public Relations and Moral Guidance director Mohamed al-Kaedi said that 43 drive-by killing operations and 22 assassination attempt were registered during the period of March 1 to April 23.
His friend Shaham Ali, 30, was shot dead in the drive-by killing in March 2003.
Colin Joyce, 29, who styled himself "The General", and Lee Amos, 32, leaders of Manchester's notorious Gooch Gang, were both convicted of the drive-by killing of a mourner at the funeral of a man Joyce had "executed" months earlier.
Drug dealer lured to restaurant before drive-by killing
He arrested Atef Abayat, a prominent Palestinian militant in Bethlehem whom Israeli security officials accused of involvement in the drive-by killing two weeks ago of an Israeli settler, Sarit Omrani.
Heartbroken mum Melissa told of her heartache at Tuesday night's drive-by killing in Tallaght, Dublin.