"But this just seemed to be a random act of violence by nature, and I wanted to help."

It did not appear to be a random act, he said.

"We can't say whether there was a relationship or a random act," he said.

This was not a random act of violence, detectives said.

Then she'd sat here trying to tell herself that the shooting was a random act of terrorism and not a hit.

"This is not a random act of violence," he said.

Nobody would be calling it an isolated or random act.

But a report by the local police force termed the killing a random act.

The result of a simple random act can only be predicted by complicated means.

The two Americans headed the right way in what would surely appear to be a random act.