1.   He was killed by a shotgun blast while supposedly resisting arrest.

2.   He was polished off with a shotgun blast to the face.

3.   They frequently shifted and broke apart under the warming sun, sounding like thunder, booming cannonades and shotgun blasts.

4.   ...the man who killed Nigel Davies with a shotgun blast.

5.   She broke off, a sudden wild suspicion widening her eyes, scattering her wits like a shotgun blast would scatter a flock of starlings.

6.   The cause of death was a shotgun blast at close range, and police are now investigating the illegal killing.

7.   And a Port Authority officer was hit in the leg by a shotgun blast fired in a tragic mistake by a New Jersey state trooper.

8.   A bank customer was killed by a shotgun blast, which Hearst said was fired by Emily Harris.

9.   But according to Matarazzo, the defense contended that during the chaos caused by the shotgun blast, another police officer fired.