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assailant

noun as in attacker

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Moreover, as Amnesty International notes, “Police recovered blood evidence from a bulletproof vest worn by one of the assailants. DNA testing excluded the murder victim and Billie Allen as sources of the blood.”

From Salon

After escaping a pair of masked assailants, he brings the police around; the sauna, you will have guessed, is clean as a whistle.

The alleged assailant — though his name wouldn’t be revealed immediately — was a popular Fox News Channel host and the keynote speaker at the conference.

The slew of robberies took place from June through November, when two assailants would approach victims in a gray Ford Focus, police said.

Two people were shot and killed after they were approached by a group of assailants in Mount Washington early Thursday, police said.

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