Sentence examples for shootings off from inspiring English sources

For Chicago, a sharp rise in violent student deaths during the past three school years -- most from shootings off school property -- have been a tragedy and an embarrassment.

After a days-long lull, the past week's mass shootings capped off at about 6 20 Thursday evening when a shooting at a two-year-old's birthday party in Dyersburg, Tennessee, left one dead and six injured.

Both shootings touched off a chain of retaliatory killings.

The shootings set off a tide of anguish nationwide.

The shootings set off panic in the throng, as people ran and dived for cover.

The Newtown massacre, coming on top of other mass shootings, set off an intense national debate about gun violence.

But even as Dallas becomes a horrific reference point, we will almost certainly see many more weeks like this, with a bevy of mass shootings capped off by one or two uniquely horrific ones.

The killings, so reminiscent of apartheid-era shootings of protesters, set off widespread outrage and copycat strikes at other mines among workers angry at the persistent poverty and inequality that have come to characterize post-apartheid South Africa.

B1 Scuffle Ends in Shootings An off-duty correction officer and a visiting Atlanta police officer were shot in a Times Square nightclub early yesterday by a man who intervened when they and a companion assaulted a patron, the police said.

A man charged in a series of shootings on and off Interstate 96 in Michigan pleaded no contest but mentally ill on Wednesday to assault and firearms charges.

High-profile mass shootings on and off campus are now an everyday reality for which even the youngest of children are prepared.