assailant

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The organization, which monitors jihadist groups, identified the assailant, who was shot dead by police, as Ndiaga Diagne, a US citizen of Senegalese origin.

From Barron's • Mar. 1, 2026

The assailant, identified as Anthony Kazmierczak, had the sort of online posting history that you would expect and had told a neighbor that he might be arrested at an upcoming Omar event.

From Slate • Jan. 31, 2026

Initially, they claimed he was kidnapped after an assailant attacked Rebecca Haro.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 16, 2025

They were exonerated more than a decade later through DNA evidence and a confession from the true assailant.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 11, 2025

However, when the scene is reenacted many times under comparable lighting conditions by a court investigating the case, the victim correctly identifies the race of the assailant only about 80 percent of the time.

From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos