• Victor Villas@lemmy.ca
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    7 months ago

    CBC readjusted title to “mass killing”. A shooting inside a townhouse is not what most people would understand as a mass shooting.

    In fact, the incident was not a shooting. Later Thursday, Staff Sgt. Jeff Pilon, one of the leads of the homicide unit, told CBC there was no shooting on Berrigan Drive.


    Completely unrelated, congrats to CBC for using OSM instead of GoogleMaps. First time I’ve noticed it.

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      7 months ago

      Thanks for the heads up, I’ve edited the title to reflect the change.

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      7 months ago

      They changed the title because it apparently wasn’t a shooting, not because of potential connotations of “mass shooting.”

      A previous version of this story called the incident a mass shooting, based on an interview with police Chief Eric Stubbs. In fact, it was not a shooting. The cause of death has not yet officially been released.

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        7 months ago

        I also said so myself?

        told CBC there was no shooting

        I’ll edit my comment to fix this ambiguity.

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      Is it fucked up that I’m glad it wasn’t a shooting for political reasons, but also sad because anything less than a shooting was probably a hundred times more painful and terrifying for the victims?