No actually it does not say they shot a Dead Grandfather. It says they shot dead a grandfather. Saying someone was “shot dead” is pretty standard English, though maybe it is from old time westerns. I will agree the way the term “Shoot Dead” is used in the headline allows for confusion. A simple article as in “Police Shoot Dead a Grandfather, 72, While Searching....” would have avoided the possibility of this confusion. Braver police would have avoided the need to write such a headline all together.
If it hadn’t been for this trigger-happy cops the man would still be resting in peace.
Well, if you are not going to allow me to put an "a" in there, then I am not going to allow you to put an "a" in there either. No matter how you slice and dice it, it is a sloppy title.
As I said, the far bigger issue is that the grandfather was killed in the first place. They went to the wrong place.
He came out armed because he thought intruders were immediately outside his home. I am afraid that when he raised his arm with a gun to point it at the armed intruders, who were actually police, his fate was sealed.
Hard to blame him in the dark seeing armed individuals. Cannot blame the police at that point, because they were looking for a suspect and a man outside the home raised a weapon at them.
The issue was the wrong address from the get go...and, as I said, that seems to be happening far too often.