On August 25, 2012 there was a shooting at the Empire State Building. Jeffery Johnson shot and killed a former co-worker. Jeffery had blamed the co-worker for him losing his job. After Jeffery had killed his co-worker cops arrived and shot and killed Jeffery and hurt nine other with bullet fragments. Jeffery’s mother is not looking back and asking, “Why?” Why did her son do this, what made him so angry to take actions like this? Some past events in his life may have made him snap into the person that killed his co-worker. The mother believed he wanted the cops to kill him.
I believe this is news. It is out of the ordinary and many people will be interested in what happened and why it happened. This is note worthy because it happened near a national monument. People have a positive image of this place, and knowing about such a shocking event could possibly change many views. It is useful to let people know of events going on and what can happen if gun fires are being shot near you. I believe many different people will interested in this story. Crime intrigues many people and they will feel pity for others through this story. This news will travel fast and through many differnet groups of people because it is so out of the normal.
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Looking good, Natalie, and a good discussion of the story. The other big story that came out of this was that all the injured passers-by were shot by the police. That’s important because we should be able to trust law enforcement to keep us safe.
Go into widgets and switch out archives with links/blogroll. That way you’ll be able to easily link to your classmates’ pages.
Rather than including the whole url, you can just write, “Click here to read the story,” and make here a link.
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