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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a random shooting" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe an incident where a shooting occurs without a specific target or motive, often in a public place.
Example: "The news reported a random shooting at the local park, leaving several people injured."
Alternatives: "an indiscriminate shooting" or "a drive-by shooting".
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Certainly, it wasn't a random shooting".
This was not a random shooting.
She said it appeared to be "a random shooting".
A teenager was struck three times during a random shooting in North Stockton, Calif., Saturday night.
His cousin was paralyzed in a random shooting at a bar.
"Before you do a random shooting, you're supposed to be quiet and keep to yourself," he said.
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The plot concerns a group of people loosely connected to a seemingly random shooting in Central Park.
The father was the victim of an apparently random shooting at a huge shopping centre in Brooklands, between Weybridge and Woking.
At the second scene in the Porte de Vincennes area in eastern Paris, the man believed to have been responsible for an apparently random shooting of a policewoman on Thursday was reported to have barricaded himself inside a kosher grocery store with several hostages.
Harland Dorrinson, who heads the largest association of random shooters in the nation, said that Trump's Fifth Avenue plan "lacked many of the key ingredients necessary for a credible random shooting".
Henry describes the shooting of the officers as an "appallingly realistic random shooting", but since they were not found for hours, he describes their survival and recovery in the next episode, "Presidential Fever", as miraculous.
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