Quick, what's wrong with this headline?
(CBS)
NEW YORK A Burger King restaurant manager is being charged with
shooting a teenage boy dead after the two argued and the boy spit in
the manager's face.
Police
say 16-year-old Shaka Walcott and 45-year-old Ronald Johannes had been
arguing for more than a week. Police say the teenager returned to the
Bronx Burger King Saturday night and was shot several times in the
chest by the manager.
Witnesses say Johannes also was injured
in the fight and he left the scene while the teen-ager writhed on the
ground. Police say Walcott was taken to a hospital, where he was
pronounced dead. They said Johannes was bleeding from gunshot wounds
when he stumbled back to his home, where they arrested him.
Johannes is charged with murder, manslaughter and criminal possession of a weapon.
Customers at the Burger King, however, said Johannes was difficult to deal with and used to kick them out.
Stop. Rewind. What did that say again? From the headline and first paragraph, we assume a murdering thug Burger King manager blew his top and gunned down a teenager for being rowdy. Only in the third paragraph do we find this:
Johannes was bleeding from gunshot wounds
when he stumbled back to his home, where they arrested him.
No mention of how the manager came to be perforated and punctured. Even though it's been almost 25 years since I took "Introduction to Journalism", I'm fairly sure that details like that are covered under both the "what" and "why" questions, and possibly "how".
New York? No thanks!