gunman

Converse of subject

• assassinate: Would the result of the election have been the same had he not been assassinated by a lone gunman?
• shoot: The five Italians were shot by gunmen who had been in hiding.
• kill: One marine is killed by a gunman on the east bank, at a hospital near the Palestine Hotel.
• murder: Akia found her early in her youth, as her parents were mysteriously murdered by an unknown gunman.
• attack: The same day, a second pharmacy, John C Robinson in Cliftonville Road, was attacked by a hooded gunman at about 5.30pm.

Converse of object

• mask: The refugees described how masked gunmen had given them only a few minutes to leave their homes.
• shoot: Lopez said police believe the gunman shot Powers, then himself within about 10 minutes from the time the first shots were fired.
• hire: Behind them lurks what they fear may be their nemesis - a posse of hired gunmen.
• kill: While in this post he killed three Mexican gunmen.
• say: Interior Ministry sources said gunmen attacked the Russians in the capital, Baghdad.
• fire: The gunman fired into my father and he fell to the ground.

Adjective modifier

• crazed: You want to get everyone from tree-hugging hippies to crazed paranoid gunmen.
• unidentified: The majority of the victims were shot by unidentified gunmen.
• lone: The Last Word, Part One - A lone gunman in a clown mask holds siege at the Junior Gazette.
• hooded: In our first scenario, three hooded gunmen raid an embassy.
• armed: However, over the last years many have been expelled from their lands by armed gunmen.

Modifies a noun

• storm: Masked gunmen storm into homes, and the victims the majority of them Sunnis are never again seen alive.

Noun used with modifier

• loyalist: Loyalist gunmen kill 13 Catholics in revenge attacks for the Shankill bomb.
• IRA: I think the first shot did come from an IRA gunman.