The phrase "a plot to shoot" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts discussing schemes or plans involving violence or assassination.
Example: "The authorities uncovered a plot to shoot the political leader during the rally."
Alternatives: "a scheme to assassinate" or "a plan to attack".
The investigating magistrate said he believed there had been a plot to shoot down a plane carrying Libya's Colonel Muammar Gadafy and that the commercial airliner had been unwittingly caught up in the "war-like scenario".
The decision, by a three-judge panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, stemmed from the 2010 convictions of four men in a plot to shoot Stinger missiles at military planes at an Air National Guard base in Newburgh, N.Y., and blow up synagogues in the Bronx.
Using incentives including money and food, the FBI convinced four Muslim men to agree to a plot to shoot down military planes and blow up two synagogues in the Bronx.
Five men have appeared in court charged in connection with a terror plot "to shoot, to kill, police officers or soldiers on the streets of London".
A man was arrested just before 3pm in Werribee yesterday over an alleged plot to "shoot and kill as many people as possible" in Federation Square on New Year's Eve.
Prosecuting, Mark Dawson, told the court the case revolved around an alleged plot "to shoot, to kill, police officers or soldiers on the streets of London". He said 21 details within the terror charge related to different individuals, but did not give specific details about which parts of the charge related to which accused.
"Did he intend to really sit in a vehicle, waiting on his son to get home from school and then plot to shoot a cop if they pulled up on him?" Adding to an atmosphere loaded with suspicion and mistrust, residents of the apartment complex gave varying accounts of Mr. Scott's death.
A year or so earlier, we'd had to go into hiding under Scotland Yard protection and although the plot to shoot my father was unsuccessful, it left our family in a state of silent terror.
Two days after the Parkland shooting, police in Fair Haven, Vt., arrested Jack H. Sawyer for his alleged plot to shoot up Fair Haven Union High School.
Prosecutors accused Mr. Hernández of knowing about the plot to shoot down the planes because he warned two agents who infiltrated the group not to fly during a four-day period that included the day of the attack.
Prosecutors accused Hernandez of knowing about the plot to shoot down the two planes on Feb. 24, 1996, because he warned two agents who infiltrated the group not to fly during a four-day period.
