Shooting at Spirit Halloween store in California leaves 1 dead, 6 injured

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Shooting at Spirit Halloween store in California leaves 1 dead, 6 injured

Oct 31, 8 AM ET to Nov 1, 5 AM ET

24outlets carried it
🫏9 · 3 · 12🐘left · center · right
22 hourson the front pages
24front pages at once, at its peak
3 minof TV captions
7radio newscasts
15people retold it online

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Oct 31, 8 AM ETfirst on a front page: CNN
Oct 31, 8 AM ETfirst on the radio: NPR News Now
Oct 31, 9 AM ETfirst on TV: Fox News
Oct 31, 11 PM ETpeak: on 24 front pages
Nov 1, 4 AM ETretold online by 15 people

the front pages that ran it, hour by hour

Front pages carrying it at each hourly run, Oct 31, 8 AM to Nov 1, 5 AM ET (peak 24), by the outlets' lean: left · center · right

Who carried it and when: each outlet in the order it picked the story up, a bar for each headline from when we first saw it on the front page to when we last did, in the outlet's lean color (dashed: not rated); a dot marks a new headline, and a headline swapped for a new one between our hourly looks runs on to it. A gap means a look found the story gone from that front page. Beneath, its captions on TV, the radio newscasts that carried it (bigger: the lead) and when people were found retelling it. Hover for details.

📡 Wire copy

2 outlets ran the AP headline nearly word for word

CNN, HuffPost

💬 Quoted

“targeted”1
“Horrific”1
“I was going to die”1

phrases its headlines put in quotation marks; the bar is how many outlets did

📌 Linked by aggregators

1 Google News

aggregators linking to it from their front page (they don't count as outlets covering it)

✏️ 10 outlets ran more than one headline on it (reworded, or a follow-up)

ABC News (3 wordings): “1 dead, 6 injured in shooting at California Halloween store, police say” → “1 dead, 6 injured in 'targeted' shooting at California Halloween store”
AP (2 wordings): “Shooting at Spirit Halloween store in California leaves 1 dead and 6 wounded, police say” → “Shooting at Spirit Halloween store in California leaves pregnant woman dead and 6 wounded”
CNN (3 wordings): “1 dead, 6 wounded in shooting at California Spirit Halloween store” → “Pregnant woman killed, 6 others wounded in targeted shooting at California Spirit Halloween store, police say”
Los Angeles Times (2 wordings): “One person killed, six injured in shooting at Spirit Halloween store” → “A pregnant woman killed, 6 injured in Bay Area Spirit Halloween shooting”
NBC News (2 wordings): “Manhunt launched after California Spirit Halloween shooting leaves 1 dead, 6 injured” → “Woman killed in California Spirit Halloween shooting was pregnant, family says”
New York Post (7 wordings): “A survivor of the deadly shooting at a Spirit Halloween in California described her heart-stopping escape from the store as gunfire erupted, leaving one person dead and six others injured.” → “Victim killed in California Halloween store shooting identified as pregnant mom of 4”
News Nation (3 wordings): “Spirit Halloween shooting leaves 1 dead, 6 injured” → “1 dead, 6 injured in targeted shooting at California Spirit Halloween store”
Newsweek (2 wordings): “California Halloween Store Mass Shooting Leaves 1 Dead, 6 Injured” → “Pregnant Woman Killed in California Halloween Store Mass Shooting”
The Independent (4 wordings): “Suspect on the loose after 1 person dead and six injured at Spirit Halloween store shooting” → “Manhunt begins after pregnant woman killed in Spirit Halloween store shooting”
The National Desk (2 wordings): “'Horrific' | 1 dead, 6 hurt in California Spirit Halloween shooting: police” → “1 killed, 6 wounded in targeted shooting at Spirit Halloween store in California mall”

📰 Every outlet's headline 24left to right by AllSides rating

HuffPost🕒 Oct 31, 7 PM ET Shooting At Spirit Halloween Store In California Leaves Pregnant Woman Dead, 6 Wounded
ABC News🕒 Oct 31, 4 AM ET 1 dead, 6 injured in shooting at California Halloween store, police say
AP🕒 Oct 31, 10 AM ET Shooting at Spirit Halloween store in California leaves 1 dead and 6 wounded, police say
CBS News🕒 Oct 31, 11 AM ET Shooting at Spirit Halloween store in California kills 1, injures 6
CNN🕒 Oct 31, 8 AM ET 1 dead, 6 wounded in shooting at California Spirit Halloween store
Los Angeles Times🕒 Oct 31, 4 AM ET One person killed, six injured in shooting at Spirit Halloween store
NBC News🕒 Oct 31, 7 PM ET Manhunt launched after California Spirit Halloween shooting leaves 1 dead, 6 injured
The Independent🕒 Oct 31, 11 AM ET Suspect on the loose after 1 person dead and six injured at Spirit Halloween store shooting
Yahoo News🕒 Oct 31, 8 AM ET Shooting at crowded Spirit Halloween store leaves 1 dead and 6 injured
News Nation🕒 Oct 31, 8 AM ET Spirit Halloween shooting leaves 1 dead, 6 injured
Newsweek🕒 Oct 31, 7 AM ET California Halloween Store Mass Shooting Leaves 1 Dead, 6 Injured
Straight Arrow News🕒 Oct 31, 11 AM ET 1 dead, six injured in shooting at Fairfield, California Spirit Halloween store
Just the News🕒 Oct 31, 8 AM ET Shooting at Spirit Halloween store in California leaves one dead, six injured
The Sun🕒 Oct 31, 6 PM ET GUNNED DOWN One dead and 6 injured in shooting inside Halloween store at shopping centre
The Washington Times🕒 Oct 31, 6 PM ET Victim of Spirit Halloween shooting in California identified as 31-year-old who was pregnant
Fox News🕒 Oct 31, 8 AM ET California police investigate deadly shooting at Spirit Halloween store
IJR🕒 Oct 31, 11 PM ET Shooting Inside Fairfield Halloween Store Kills One, Wounds Six
New York Post🕒 Oct 31, 8 AM ET A survivor of the deadly shooting at a Spirit Halloween in California described her heart-stopping escape from the store as gunfire erupted, leaving one person dead and six others injured.
OAN🕒 Oct 31, 6 PM ET Calif.: Spirit Halloween store shooting leaves 1 dead, 6 injured
Red State🕒 Oct 31, 9 PM ET Shooter Targets a Northern California Spirit Halloween Store, Killing 1, Injuring 6 Others
The Daily Wire🕒 Oct 31, 6 PM ET Shooting Leaves One Dead At Spirit Halloween Store, Suspect At Large
The Gateway Pundit🕒 Oct 31, 10 AM ET Shooting at Spirit Halloween in California Leaves 1 Dead, 6 Injured – Manhunt Underway for Suspect
The National Desk🕒 Oct 31, 9 AM ET 'Horrific' | 1 dead, 6 hurt in California Spirit Halloween shooting: police
The Post Millennial🕒 Oct 31, 7 PM ET Pregnant woman killed, 7 injured at Spirit Halloween mass shooting in California

TV, radio, and the shows that talked about it

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what people online made of it

🧶 Retold online

A targeted shooting at a Spirit Halloween store in Fairfield, California, killed a pregnant woman and injured six others. Nov 1: told by 15 people

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Shooting at Spirit Halloween store in California leaves 1 dead, 6 injured

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