31.   Pepper hopes that new forensic methods will prove that the rifle did not fire the fatal shot.

32.   Ray repeatedly tried and failed to win a new trial, saying he was set up and that someone else fired the fatal shot.

33.   Prosecutors have said Hart assisted in the robbery but did not fire the fatal shot.

34.   So far no fatal shots have been fired, but this is the sort of obstreperous scientific debate in which casualties are nearly inevitable.

35.   The authority accuses Hamas of trying to undermine its rule, asserting that armed militants whipped up the crowd and fired the fatal shots in Tulkarm.

36.   The fatal shot lodged in his head.

37.   The fatal shot penetrated his heart.

38.   The fatal shots were fired by another city supervisor, Dan White.

39.   The exact identity of the republican soldier who fired the fatal shot in the Beal na Blagh ambush has been the source of endless and profitless speculation.