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Video from inside the home showed Shumpert's codefendant Alonzo Mingo holding a man and woman at gunpoint and demanding money.
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Wcco Staff, CBS News, 12 Dec. 2025
One day later, police said Rusi followed another individual from a Bank of America in Fort Bend County and robbed them at gunpoint, according to KPRC 2.
—Julia Bonavita, FOXNews.com, 10 Dec. 2025
Fuller arrives and holds the major at gunpoint while the pillar is loaded back into the incinerator and destroyed.
—Louis Peitzman, Vulture, 8 Dec. 2025
The family of a Vermont man in federal custody told k that immigration agents boxed him in his vehicle, shattered its window, and forced him out at gunpoint before allegedly running over his foot.
—Billal Rahman, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 Dec. 2025
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Wcco Staff, CBS News, 12 Dec. 2025
One day later, police said Rusi followed another individual from a Bank of America in Fort Bend County and robbed them at gunpoint, according to KPRC 2.
—Julia Bonavita, FOXNews.com, 10 Dec. 2025
Fuller arrives and holds the major at gunpoint while the pillar is loaded back into the incinerator and destroyed.
—Louis Peitzman, Vulture, 8 Dec. 2025
The family of a Vermont man in federal custody told k that immigration agents boxed him in his vehicle, shattered its window, and forced him out at gunpoint before allegedly running over his foot.
—Billal Rahman, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 Dec. 2025
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“Gunpoint.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/gunpoint. Accessed 17 Dec. 2025.
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gunpoint
noun
gun·point
ˈgən-ˌpȯint 
: the muzzle of a gun
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