You posted two links to stories that happened five or more days ago. One article even had comments shut off. There has been many more developments in this story as Spero News indicated. That’s the most up-to-date source of news. Contesting their news with old stories doesn’t make sense.
Spero News isn’t a news outlet. It does news analysis.
They had no new information. They have a story told by the parents. Parents who currently don’t have custody of their 8-year-old. Parents who had two children involved in a drug-related shooting.
The earlier articles talk about things that happened earlier. The Spero News article speaks aobut things that happened at the same EARLIER time. Those two versions don’t match. The spero news isn’t saying the parents learned about the request for organs later.
That is the most obvious and glaring red flag. According to the Spero News story, the parents were IMMEDIATELY told that their child was dead, and to donate the organs.
But stories in other news outlets starting 3 days after the shooting, and up to 3 days ago, never mention this. All the other stories talk about hope, talk about progress, or talk about no further progress. Not ONE mentions that the parents were initially told the child would never make it.
Why would family members not mention this once, in all the other stories? According to Spero, the request for organs happened back around August 6th when the shooting happened. But we are just learning about it now, August 20th, and not in any previous article.
At BEST, it seems the parents stayed completely silent about all the issues they are raising now. And instead of trying to get a news outlet onto the story, they chose this guy who writes articles for Spero News. Why?
Yes, there could be reasons why. I’m not saying this shows the story is false. I’m saying this casts doubts on the story, and raises questions about why the parents are telling the story.
Maybe the story will become a real news story tomorrow. Until it does, I remain skeptical. Not because I don’t believe it could happen. But because there are too many things in this story that don’t make sense, and it is all told from a single point of view, one that may have a good reason to be biased or misleading.