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The agency released images of a person of interest on Thursday, showing an individual wearing a baseball cap and sunglasses in a stairwell, and offered a $100,000 reward for information leading to an arrest.
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Doc Louallen, ABC News, 11 Sep. 2025
The images show a man in a stairwell wearing a black long sleave shirt with an American flag, jeans, sunglasses and a dark hat.
—Joey Garrison, USA Today, 11 Sep. 2025
Aita suffered stab wounds to the abdomen, back, face and neck and collapsed in a stairwell; his girlfriend underwent surgery and is being held under guard at the hospital.
—Christina Coulter, PEOPLE, 8 Sep. 2025
Israeli forces struck that same stairwell minutes later again, killing medics, first responders and four more journalists working for international media, including the Associated Press and Al Jazeera.
—Aya Batrawy, NPR, 1 Sep. 2025
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Doc Louallen, ABC News, 11 Sep. 2025
The images show a man in a stairwell wearing a black long sleave shirt with an American flag, jeans, sunglasses and a dark hat.
—Joey Garrison, USA Today, 11 Sep. 2025
Aita suffered stab wounds to the abdomen, back, face and neck and collapsed in a stairwell; his girlfriend underwent surgery and is being held under guard at the hospital.
—Christina Coulter, PEOPLE, 8 Sep. 2025
Israeli forces struck that same stairwell minutes later again, killing medics, first responders and four more journalists working for international media, including the Associated Press and Al Jazeera.
—Aya Batrawy, NPR, 1 Sep. 2025
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“Stairwell.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/stairwell. Accessed 16 Sep. 2025.
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stairwell
noun
stair·well
-ˌwel 
: a vertical shaft in which stairs are located
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