gun down

/ɡˈʌn dˈaʊn/

to gun down

MAIN VERB

[phrase form: gun]

to seriously injure or kill a person by shooting them, particularly someone who is defenseless

Examples

1. The people in this village were gunned down.

2. On August the 20th of 1989, their parents were gunned down in the den of their Beverly Hills home.

3. On July the 30th of 2016, a woman was gunned down during her daily jog in Oakland County, Michigan.

4. Those victims gunned down this week by drug cartel killers.