By A Texas Reader
Sun, Aug 16, 2020 3:20 p.m.
Johnson said maybe 100 shots were fired in a parking area of the flea market, and multiple people were hit. EMS transported five victims to a nearby hospital with possible life-threatening injuries; Johnson said one of the victims self-transported to the
https://www.kvue.com/article/news/crime/shooting-reported-at-south-side-flea-market/273-51a052b1-a9d9-491f-b9d8-1c23c1c68f4f
N.S.: This is garbage: "Possible life-threatening injuries." Either they were life-threatening wounds (not "injuries"--what did they slip on puddles?), or they weren't. You have hyperbole ("life-threatening") co-habiting with diminishment ("possible," "injuries"). So, either write, "EMS transported five victims to a nearby hospital with life-threatening wounds," or leave the phrase out.
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Not as bad as the FOX-17 reporter who wrote
about a young 15-year-old girl who was raped by a blackie,“and appeared to be the target of the crime.”
Yup,Sherlock at FOX 17,the girl who was raped,DID "APPEAR" to be the target of the crime.Brilliant deduction.
Not like a shooting,where you might hit the wrong person accidentally,but rape,I believe,is quite a bit different(lots of sarcasm)--there are no accidental rapes that I've ever heard of. I'm going to go out on a limb and say,with certainty,that 100% of rape victims WERE THE targets of the crime.
(But I see your point N.S.)
--GRA
No real determining if the usual suspects involved.
That is a lot of shots fired. Either a bunch of shooters or several shooters reloading over and over.
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