These men would fire the first shot at Sumter.

VOA: special.2009.08.06

"We investigated the case of a small businessman from Herakleion in Crete, who took his car, loaded it with tins of petrol, and first shot himself and then put fire to the whole car."

VOA: special.2011.07.13

The women have the first shot at medals Thursday as they vie for the gold medal in the high jump.

VOA: standard.2009.08.19

Experts say one of the reasons the gunfight is so interesting to many people is that no one knows who shot first or why.

VOA: special.2010.02.15

The first -- Abraham Lincoln -- had been shot just sixteen years before.

VOA: special.2010.04.22

Bill Tilghman was shot to death on November first, nineteen twenty-four.

VOA: special.2010.03.10

She was shot through the brain. Police believe she was the main target of the attack -- the first shooting of a member of Congress in more than thirty years.

VOA: special.2011.01.15

They shot him first on his shoulder than at his head.

VOA: standard.2010.01.02

"But the real heroes that day were those 32 men that after they saw their comrades, the first four me on the boat cut in halfor shot to pieces, two very severely and two dead, they still climbed over the bodies and did their job."

VOA: standard.2009.06.02