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Recent Examples of assailant
Kimmel’s September 15 monologue accused MAGA supporters of distorting the shooter’s motives, despite reports that the assailant leaned left politically.
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Amanda Castro, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 Sep. 2025
After the Antioch School shooting in January 2025, Nashville's school district said that a new AI weapons detection system, called Omnilert, failed to detect the gun used by an assailant who shot and killed two students.
—Tonya Simpson, ABC News, 24 Sep. 2025
Eddie Mulholland / Pool via Getty Images In the wake of the attack, in which 10 other children were seriously hurt, disinformation spread on social media, wrongly identifying the assailant as a Muslim asylum seeker.
—Reuters, NBC news, 23 Sep. 2025
That would make the pills found in Megan’s system a cover-up by the assailant, and she would have been forced to take them.
—Brian Brant, PEOPLE, 23 Sep. 2025
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attacker
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All four victims had been ruthlessly stabbed to death before the attacker vanished through the kitchen’s sliding glass door and into the night.—
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His selfless act allowed classmates to subdue the attackers and prevented what could have been a much larger tragedy.—
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“Assailant.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/assailant. Accessed 29 Sep. 2025.
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