An angry Jean willfully and methodically shoots Herman and coldly watches him writhe in pain, but on the witness stand she insists it was an accident.

Workers carried the dead to a morgue; citizens gathered for evening prayer vigils, and the police puzzled over why someone would methodically and indiscriminately shoot and kill victims ranging from 3 to 72 years old.

Joe methodically shot the three nightstalkers.

Three mounted men loped their horses after them, shooting methodically at close range with short powerful recurve bows, turning their mounts as nimbly as rodeo cowboys.

According to police Brown walked through the building, methodically shooting everyone, most of the time at close range and sometimes twice, leaving three victims in the office and others in the work area and the driveway in front of the shop.

So Calendar, still sitting with his legs at a V behind the tripod, methodically shot a fifth dozen, then a sixth, then a seventh.

And last Tuesday a man identified as Colin Ferguson strode through a Long Island Rail Road commuter train, methodically shooting passengers with a 9-millimeter semiautomatic handgun.

He walked into the lunch-hour streets of downtown Pretoria in November 1988, smiling as he methodically shot every black person he encountered.

As they shot at him methodically and accurately, but missed because he was bobbing wildly and going too fast, he caught a glimpse of them.

He has been locked in psychiatric wards since Sept. 8, 1949, the day after he walked through his Camden neighborhood and methodically shot his barber, his shoemaker and 11 others to death.