Eleven years earlier, on a December night in 1990, Chekasa was caught in random gunfire while walking home from a night out in the neighborhood.
Geoffrey Taylor's Changing Faces: The History of the Guardian describes her covering the war in Algeria, "literally marching toward the sound of gunfire and regularly walking alone through the casbah".
Rhys, 11, was killed by stray gunfire as he was walking home from football practice across the forecourt of the Fir Tree pub in Croxteth Park on the evening of 22 August 2007.
Young George heard the sound of distant gunfire and saw rebels walking through the village streets.
"We are having a pleasant dream now of living in peace without hearing gunfire or bombs and walking freely through open streets," said teacher Abdul Wahab Ahmed, 45, who compared the new order to "passing a glass of chilled water to the thirsty".
In images posted by activists on the Internet, the observers, wearing bright orange vests, are seen walking as heavy gunfire can be heard somewhere nearby.
They were out walking when they heard gunfire.
You'll be surprised how many readers you have when the mail comes in deriding you for inaccuracies in the depiction of brain surgery, tightrope walking, or murder by gunfire, poison, or pillow.
[The former Liberal leader] Jo Grimond's approach of walking 'towards the sound of gunfire' has been replaced by the less sustainable and more negative approach of digging in, in our constituency trenches.
Michelle Drisland, who lives near the deli, said she was walking a short distance away when she heard gunfire.
