Drive-by shooting
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A drive-by shooting is a type of assault that typically involves the perpetrator firing a weapon from within a motor vehicle and then fleeing.[1] Such shootings are often associated with gang violence in urban areas of the United States but also occur in other contexts. The tactic is also known in the media as simply a "drive-by".[2] The primary motivations for a gang-involved drive-by include intimidation, terrorization, and assassination of rival street gang members.[3]
Urban drive-by shootings often involve multiple perpetrators inside the attacking vehicle and multiple victims nearby. Because the attackers fire numerous shots in an imprecise manner, innocent bystanders and children are frequently killed or injured.
Numerous hip-hop artists have been targeted in drive-bys;[4] prominent rappers who were killed in such incidents include Tupac Shakur,[5] The Notorious B.I.G.,[6] and Mac Dre.[7]
Usages
Military use
The British military (especially the Special Air Service) used this form of drive-by shooting in its campaigns in North Africa and France during the Second World War. Columns of heavily armed jeeps, bristling with machine guns, would drive past and sometimes through enemy positions, usually airfields and supply depots, shooting at military targets.[8]
In the first decade of the 21st century, drive-by shootings were used by militants in Iraq, including the assassinations of Waldemar Milewicz[9] and Hatem Kamil.[10]
See also
References
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