Drive-by shooting

A drive-by shooting (sometimes referred to merely as a drive-by) is an attack on a person carried out with one or more firearms from a moving vehicle (or a momentarily stopped vehicle). They often result in the shooting of innocent bystanders because of a lack of accuracy.

Related Topics:
Attack - Firearms - Vehicle - Shooting of innocent bystanders - Accuracy

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Drive-by shootings are popular among criminals (and gang members in particular), because the shooter is already in the getaway car. One of the first documented drive-by shootings in the United States was during the Chicago, Illinois Race Riot of 1919. Drive-by shootings became common during the gang wars of the Prohibition era.

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Criminal - Gang - Getaway car - Chicago, Illinois - Race Riot of 1919 - Gang war - Prohibition

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The Chinese Civil War saw the drive-by shooting elevated to military tactics, when warlords fielded armored cars (regular cars replated with steel sheets) with a mounted Colt machine gun on top. Drive-by assassinations of political leaders have been common in some regions and eras; they have been used extensively in postwar Iraq.

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Chinese Civil War - Military - Tactic - Warlord - Armored car - Colt - Machine gun - Assassination - Postwar Iraq

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Among the most notorious drive-by shootings in the modern era is the murder of rapper Tupac Shakur, who was shot on a Las Vegas street allegedly by members of the Los Angeles-based street gang, the Crips.

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Rapper - Tupac Shakur - Las Vegas - Los Angeles - Street gang - Crips

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