It happened on Tuesday and it was at an apartment complex in another part of town. No injuries, but the event that caused it was a dispute between or among people. They've already got an arrest warrant out for the suspect.
Indeed. And from what I read in the article, it wasn't like a rampage shooting or anything. The guy just discharged the firearm.
A murder-suicide happened a few yards from my apartment a few years ago during the middle of the night. To this day, it's still hard to believe such a thing happened outside my window.
Was the firearm aimed at someone? Because if not, that's not a shooting. That's a shot that was fired, probably by accident.
You do realize that the news can call it whatever it wants, don't you? That doesn't change what it is. If the police were calling it a shooting, then you might have something. All you've shown me is a case of yellow journalism.
Either way is still a shooting, whether the gun was pointed at or toward someone and fired or just fired off. http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/Shooting?s=t
That's the verb version of the word. When you refer to "a shooting," you're using as a noun, in which case it refers to the event of shots being fired with intent to kill or injure. Besides all that, 3 and 4 wouldn't be considered "a shooting" in a court of law, at least not where I live. It would be considered an unauthorized discharge of a firearm.
There've been at least three shootings on my uni this past year, two of which I had just left campus moments before it started.
