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At Point Blank

The police investigation is led by 33-year-old chief inspector Klara (Sofia Helin) and Greger Krona (Stefan Sauk) who are led to the source, with a fatal exit.



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Battle of Dublin

Traynor's men in "the block" held out until artillery was brought up, under the cover of armoured cars, to bombard them at point blank range.

Bophuthatswana coup d'état of 1994

In response, Menyatsoe shot the three wounded men dead at point blank range with an R4, shouting angrily, "Who do you think you are? What are you doing in my country?"

Daniel M'Naghten

On the afternoon of 20 January the Prime Minister's private secretary, civil servant Edward Drummond, was walking towards Downing Street from Charing Cross when M'Naghten approached him from behind, drew a pistol and fired at point-blank range into his back.

Gordon Bridson

The New Zealanders continued to attack and the Kiwi rammed the submarine three times, firing at point blank range with its main 4 inch gun and a 20-mm Oerlikon mounted on its bow (acquired unofficially at Noumea for two bottles of gin).

Port of Tacoma protests, March 2007

Of them, one had been shot with a rubber bullet at point blank range, and another had been struck with a Taser three times as he was pinned down.

Provisional IRA East Tyrone Brigade

They had mounted a heavy DShK machine gun on the back of a stolen lorry, driven right to the RUC/British Army station and opened fire with tracer ammunition at the fortified base at point-blank range, when the long-range of the weapon would enable them to fire from a safe distance.

Salvatore Tessio

The original novel implies Tessio's death, but Mark Winegardner's sequel novel The Godfather Returns explains that he is executed with a gunshot at point blank range by his enforcer Nick Geraci.

Sibusiso Duma

He then shot her in the head at point blank range using the Norinco pistol he had stolen from Mqeku Zondi.

The Loneliest Planet

After a short conversation with their guide, the older man suddenly aims a Dragunov sniper rifle aggressively at Alex and Nica at point-blank range.

Threatening the President of the United States

In July 2003, the Los Angeles Times published a Sunday editorial cartoon by conservative Michael Ramirez that depicted a man pointing a gun at President Bush’s head; it was a takeoff on the 1969 Pulitzer Prize-winning photo by Eddie Adams that showed South Vietnamese National Police Chief Nguyễn Ngọc Loan executing a Viet Cong prisoner at point-blank range.