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Contract killing (also known as murder-for-hire) is a form of murder or assassination in which one party hires another party to kill a targeted person or people. [1] It involves an illegal agreement which includes some form of compensation, monetary or otherwise.
The practice of contract killing involves a person (the contract killer) who is paid to kill one or more individuals. [1] As implied by the name, the contract killer typically does such solely for the purpose of profit and often lacks any personal connection to their intended target.
A common example of a proxy murder would be a person contracting a hit man, [2] or a hired killer. Hit men commit the act of murder on a specific target or targets, and may receive payment in exchange for the murder or murders committed. This is what is known as contract killing. [3]
Tan hired a hitman, Xi Guangan, and paid him the equivalent of $282,600 to kill Wei. According to court documents , Xi took that money and spent half of it to hire another hitman, Mo Tianxiang, to ...
Hired gun, a mercenary soldier, hired professional killer or "torpedo", or someone who conducts themselves like a mercenary in non-military affairs.; Session musician or "hired gun", a musician who's been hired by a studio or band to play his part on the album or record.
Such was the case Wednesday, when the DOJ unsealed a superseding indictment against Nikhil Gupta, an Indian national who prosecutors allege was part of a foiled murder-for-hire scheme targeting a ...
Tatyana Remley, 42, is accused of trying to organise murder of Mark Remley
Claude is a disaffected man who, in search of fast money to purchase a $28,000 house, decides to become a contract killer for a Mr. Brink. After proving his worth by killing targets in a barber shop and a hospital for a Mr. Moon, whom he then kills at Brink's behest, Claude is given a contract to kill a witness in a high-profile trial, which starts in two weeks in Los Angeles.