1.   At first, police assumed the incident was a botched robbery turned massacre.

2.   A gunshot during a botched robbery ended the life of a young surgeon on a Manhattan street, and the city recoiled from the senseless waste.

3.   A third teen-ager, who admitted being a lookout during the botched robbery, was convicted of second-degree murder last month.

4.   After Max swiped the ring from Kevin during a botched robbery attempt, neither man wants to relinquish the trinket without a fight.

5.   He nearly lost his life the same evening, after being shot point-blank in the chest during a botched robbery outside his apartment in the Castle Hill section.

6.   In Brooklyn recently, a teen-ager shot and killed a livery cab driver in broad daylight after he resisted her and two girlfriends during a botched robbery attempt.

7.   It was after one of his nightly block watches that he was shot in a botched robbery attempt in front of his house.

8.   Other investigators, however, theorize the killing was a botched robbery and nothing was taken because something went wrong.

9.   Only an hour after a botched robbery attempt at a Sherman Oaks travel agency Tuesday, the same two robbers hit another agency, Aldaz said.

10.   Simon has a budding career going until one of his models badly beats him in a botched robbery, leaving him badly bruised and heavily in debt.