The first thing I noticed is the bizarre placement of “late Sunday afternoon.” It would have worked fine someplace in the first or second sentence. Why do reporters write like this, instead of like humans?
The "but" seems wrong. Shouldn't that be an "and" instead?
Anyway, too bad the guy went out that way. I don't know what else to say about it.
Because when it got to his editor they said, “You didn’t say when it happened.” When the writer got back to their desk, that’s where the blinking cursor was in the story and they added it.