1.   After hostage negotiators heard the gunshot over the phone, police waited about a half hour before entering the home.

2.   Authorities were talking to him by telephone shortly before noon on Friday when they heard a gunshot and the line went dead.

3.   Police received calls from residents who heard the gunshots.

4.   Their panic intensified, as they heard the gunshots getting closer.

5.   We heard gunshots as we drove through the outskirts of the city.

6.   She says she heard a gunshot at about midnight.

7.   One traveller said that she heard a man whistling, then hear gunshots.

8.   Gary Rothwell and his friend Stephen Foster, from Ferryhill, said they heard the gunshot.

9.   Detectives are keen to speak to the driver of a car seen leaving the murder scene with its lights off shortly after gunshots were heard.

10.   And most indicated that they have heard gunshots in their neighborhoods, too.