assailant
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The assailant, she told investigators, offered to drive her to a nearby pay phone.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 15, 2026
Police said the assailant, 44-year-old Anthony Griffin, ignored repeated demands to drop the weapon and called himself Lucifer.
From BBC • Apr. 11, 2026
The assailant, identified as Anthony Kazmierczak, had the sort of online posting history that you would expect and had told a neighbor that he might be arrested at an upcoming Omar event.
From Slate • Jan. 31, 2026
U.S. and Syrian forces didn’t identify the assailant who was killed by Syrian forces or describe his motivations.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 14, 2025
Both he and the men in the store had spent the entire day hunting for Emma Lee’s assailant in the brush and swamplands of the beach.
From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy
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