It’s the first thing they report because it supports The Narrative
The shooter has to be an angry white cisgender male native born Trump-supporting American. It absolutely cannot be a questioning Muslim male of color. That is just not possible.
Three weeks from now, below the want ads for bed pan wipers on page E18 they’ll publish the correction.
if it’s a white guy with PSD, certainly he wont mind having pork fat rubbed all over him.