Shell Script- Force Quit Multiple Selections?

https://discussions.apple.com/message/25279344#25279344
Thanks to Red for providing this below as it works great for single applications, but if I throw in it multiple selections allowed
how can I separate each selection for force quitting? I'm a total newb to shell script with a decent skill level in applescripting. I'd love to see how this an be implemented.
set theItem to (choose from list theapps) as text
if theItem is false then error -128 -- or exit repeat (Cancel)
do shell script "killall " & quoted form of theItem

set theItems to ((choose from list theapps with multiple selections allowed) as list)
if (theItems as text) is "false" then
else if (theItems as text) is not "false" then
          set results to (every item of theItems)
          repeat with eachItem in results
                    do shell script "killall " & quoted form of (eachItem as text)
          end repeat
end if
TW actually after comparing it looks very similar! The reason why I used the false statement as text is I kept getting:
--> false
end tell
tell current application
do shell script "killall 'false'"
--> error "No matching processes belonging to you were found" number 1
and it was my workaround that didn't return any error at all. Looking at it a bit more the false was returning that error because I had it "as list". Thanks again for helping me learn how to simplify the workflow some more!
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