Sentence examples for shootings set from inspiring English sources

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.

There is, no doubt, something entirely natural and even valuable in the anguished analysis that events like the Jonesboro shootings set in motion.

California authorities were on alert today after residents angry over deadly police shootings set fires, smashed windows and threw rocks at officers in a fourth day of violent protests, ending with 24 arrests and several injuries.

Given that London's police force is slightly smaller than New York's, and protects a similar number of people, it is interesting to place that single recent fatality alongside the new record low for fatal police shootings set in New York in 2010, when eight people were killed by officers.

But police efforts to find a pattern in the shootings were set back by the shooting in Central Park.The three previous shootings had taken place in an eight-block square area in the East New York section of Brooklyn and nearby Woodhaven.

By contrast, 12 shootings were set in motion not with a call for help, but rather with an officer's choice to initiate contact with someone he believed was acting suspiciously.

PAGE B3 2 Killed in Shootings After setting fire to his apartment in Wilkinsburg, Pa., the police say, a gunman killed two men and critically wounded three others.

The neighborhood was on lockdown for six days, until Thursday, as city officials tried to end a spate of shootings by setting up checkpoints where all occupants of vehicles were required to prove that they had a legitimate reason to enter the area.

UPDATE: I originally called this post, "Do civilians with guns ever stop mass shootings?," using "civilians" to set aside mass shootings stopped by on- or off-duty police officers.