Their acquaintance dates back only to the previous night, when she ran into and then out of his life after firing a gunshot at his next-door neighbor.
Mr. Blair was standing outside Sadie Mitchell's home on East 224th Street in the Williamsbridge section of the Bronx on Oct. 20, 2009, when he fired a gunshot during an argument, according to the district attorney's office.
In a separate episode detailed in the report — completed in 2004 by the inspector general, John L. Helgerson, but emerging now after a lawsuit by the American Civil Liberties Union forced its release — C.I.A. officers fired a gunshot in a room next to a detainee, leading the prisoner to believe that a second detainee had been killed.
(The government shut it down three hours after its opening on Feb. 5 after an artist fired a gunshot at her work, then allowed it to reopen on Feb. 10. A bomb threat on Feb. 15 prompted the authorities to shut it down for two more days; it reopened on Feb. 17 and closed as scheduled on Feb 19).
Mr Potts, serving in the Berkshire Yeomanry and aged 22, dragged fellow soldier and townsman Arthur Andrews to safety on a shovel under heavy enemy fire, despite having a gunshot wound in his thigh.
The police said that the two men got into an argument and that the second man fired a single gunshot, which passed through Mr. Ross's neck.
They unleashed a revolution that, without firing a single gunshot, accomplished the signing of a peace accord Colombia spent decades hoping for.
"Frankie Boyle is a really good comedian, he can fire a gag like a gunshot, but I'm very uncomfortable about jokes about kids with Down's syndrome.
