lone gunman

lone gunman

A shooter that acts alone. This phrase is perhaps most often associated with Lee Harvey Oswald, the man who assassinated John F. Kennedy. I know you think the murders were perpetrated by a lone gunman, but I just can't believe that no one else helped him to carry out all this violence.
See also: lone
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
See also:
  • beck and call
  • great minds
  • great minds think alike
  • (as) sure as eggs (is eggs)
  • a penny for them
  • square shooter
  • get thee behind me
  • be twiddling (one's) thumbs
  • be twiddling your thumbs
  • Heinz 57 (variety)
References in periodicals archive
A police officer was shot dead by a lone gunman in Taguig City Thursday night.
In Albay, Magno Bonde was having a drinking spree with his friends in Barangay Buga, Libon when a lone gunman approached and shot him several times at around 8 p.m.
The lone gunman who was wearing a bonnet fled on a motorcycle.
The announcement comes less than a week after 50 people were killed at two mosques, allegedly by a lone gunman.
Australian Brenton Tarrant, 28, a suspected white supremacist, was charged with murder on Saturday after a lone gunman opened fire at the two mosques during Friday prayers.
The lone gunman who was wounded by a military patrol after his attack is now surrounded by security forces and there have been heavy exchanges of fire at that site, "France 3" television said.
Evans Omondi had parked his car at about 9 pm when a lone gunman accosted and shot him in the chest at close range.
POLICE yesterday confirmed 36 people were found dead in the ruins of a hotel and casino set on fire by a lone gunman.
A LONE gunman was on the loose last night in Paris after shooting and wounding a newspaper worker days after opening fire at a TV station in the French capital.
A LONE gunman is on the loose in Paris after shooting and wounding a newspaper worker days after opening fire at a TV station in the French capital.
During the mutual shooting, lone gunman was killed and another wounded.
AFP -- US authorities probing the shooting spree at Washington's Navy Yard, which left 13 dead and eight injured, said Monday that a lone gunman carried out the killings.
New York, Jumada I 02, 1434, March 14, 2013, SPA -- Police were searching for a lone gunman believed to have killed at least four people Wednesday in a shooting rampage in two towns in upstate New York, dpa reported.
Melbourne, January 12 ( ANI ): Robert F Kennedy Jr is convinced that a lone gunman wasn't solely responsible for the assassination of his uncle - John F Kennedy.