Under the coat was a sawn-off shotgun and he fired.

A shotgun fired at point-blank range had punched a hole in its chest.

His shotgun fired a wasted charge of buckshot toward the moon.

The shotgun fired again, showering the hallway with bits of wood.

He fell with Jodie and the shotgun fired against the corpse.

The second and third were similar - a shotgun fired through the window of a home at close range.

Her scream was like a shotgun fired beside his ear.

A little later, when the shotgun fired at the other end of the building, Pat didn't hear a sound.

But the shotgun accidentally fired, critically wounding him in the head, the police said.

The shotgun fired, a wide burst of incandescent fury in the darkness.