He stepped outside and observed his front bumper, scratched like a scabbed shin.
Once he stepped outside, police officers inspected him to see if he had any tattoos that suggested gang ties.
In 1975, while eating lunch in a Buenos Aires restaurant, Mr. Martínez received word that when he stepped outside, he would be assassinated.
It was about 5 a.m., he said, when he stepped outside to hail a cab to take him downtown to his apartment, to bed.
Mr. Hall was with club members at a building in Harlem and was shot after he stepped outside, said Deborah Sack, a spokeswoman for Hunter College.
Stay in here.' " The chief, Abdul Rauf, 60, said he stepped outside and tried to tell the Americans that the Afghans were friendly forces.
On Saturday, Mr. Frasier was at the home of his cousin, Phelix Boatwright, 58, watching basketball when he stepped outside, and the argument began, Mr. Boatwright said.
"People were running everywhere, grabbing kids and tripping over each other," said Richard Ray Jr., 46, who said that after he was awoken by the gunfire, he stepped outside and saw people sprawled on the ground, bleeding.
After an alarm, Father Kleinsorge always went out and scanned the sky, and this time, when he stepped outside, he was glad to see only the single weather plane that flew over Hiroshima each day about this time.
He vanished when he stepped outside during a break in the discussions, she said.
But when he stepped outside, the realization became painfully clear.
