assailant

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• Popkin said the deputy appears to have unsuccessfully tried to use his Taser to stop the assailant, who continued to attack with the piece of wood.

• Karau ended up representing himself in General District Court — and the alleged assailant was convicted of assault.

• The assailants belonged to the Front de Libération du Québec, or FLQ, a militant group that called for the independence of their Francophone province in eastern Canada.

• Video of the encounter soon spread on the Internet, prompting people to speculate online about the alleged assailant’s identity.

• Noble left his vehicle and the assailant began chasing him in broad daylight, while continuing to shoot at him.

• Somebody yanks Chan and elbows him and he is momentarily distracted trying to apprehend his assailant.

• The rationale in those cases, he said, is that DNA should be used to identify the assailant.

• Thankfully, Linda was not injured and the assailant, a white male, was arrested.

• My assailant will remain unpunished, and life on this campus will continue its course as if nothing had happened.

• There was that time Nancy Kerrigan was whacked in the knee by a baton-wielding assailant in 1994.

• In the distance he saw his late assailant running hard; the coach had disappeared.