Posted on 10/14/2022 12:37:43 PM PDT by bitt
Here’s what The News & Observer has learned about the suspect in Thursday’s mass shooting in Raleigh:
WHO IS THE SUSPECT IN THE RALEIGH SHOOTING?
Sources have confirmed for The News & Observer that the suspect in Thursday night’s mass shooting is 15-year-old Austin Thompson, a sophomore at Knightdale High School and the brother of 16-year-old shooting victim James Thompson.
Austin Thompson is hospitalized in critical condition at WakeMed, where he was taken after being capture by police Thursday night.
Austin Thompson lived in the Hedingham neighborhood.
Neighbors said he lived with his father, a handyman in the neighborhood, and would help on odd jobs.
Several described unusual behavior from the son.
”I used to see him at 4:30, 5 in the morning with a bookbag on,” said Lavarius Thompson, a neighbor. “Buses don’t run till 7 in the morning.”
Lavarius Thompson, who is unrelated to a victim with the same last name, said he normally works out in his garage, but something kept him from the habit Thursday night.
”I could have been a victim myself,” he said.
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As I remember it, Columbo set Dick Van Dyke up with a reversed negative, in that episode.
One of the 911 callers said the kid had a shotgun. Is there any word on the weapon he used?
You’re reading far too much into this.
Heavily biased being the Monday-morning QB here.
“The article states: The victims were identified as:”
I prefer lead in paragraphs have some form of accounting rather than the word “mass.”
News articles don’t have to be set up to read like a mystery novel, just the facts.
Using the destriptor “mass” is not a factual number for a handful of victims. A square block of New York City, would be a suitable time to use the word mass because the numbers would be too large to get an immediate accurate accounting.
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