1.   Before the shooting began Wednesday night, Stencil said, he and his friends were talking about American kids their age.

2.   A deputy sheriff assigned to the school did fire at one of the student gunmen soon after the shooting began, but did not pursue him through the buildiing.

3.   A half-hour after the shooting began, a heavily armed special police brigade arrived and finished off the surviving assailants.

4.   A wrestler whose mother works in another high school in the area, Steepleton was in the library, studying, when the shooting began.

5.   Abu Naga Shabib Gabriel was leading a tour bus toward the temple when he saw the shooting begin.

6.   All four of the officers who shot Diallo were dressed in street clothes, although their lawyers have said they identified themselves before the shooting began.

7.   But the official noted that it was likely that wild shooting had already begun before officers could choose that option.

8.   Erica said she was in the cafeteria taking pictures of friends when the shooting began and only heard the shots.

9.   He and Dustin Thurman had just left for lunch off-campus when the shooting began.

10.   He was in his apartment overlooking the scene when the shooting began.