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🗞️ Story file #361

Pennsylvania shooter killed 8 including relatives and children

Oct 12, 10 AM ET to Oct 13, 2 PM ET

👣 How this story traveled: from the front pages that broke it, out through TV, radio and the shows, into what people retold and what fact-checkers examined, and on into the saga it is part of. Everything here is matched to the story by our tools, so a link can be wrong; the trackers' pages say how each is made.

  1. Oct 12, 10 AM ETfirst on a front page: News Nation
  2. Oct 12, 1 PM ETpeak: on 8 front pages
  3. Oct 12, 2 PM ETfirst on TV: Fox News

📰 Spread

the front pages that ran it, hour by hour

Oct 12, 12 PM6 PMOct 136 AM12 PM49leftcenterright
Front pages carrying it at each hourly run, Oct 12, 10 AM to Oct 13, 2 PM ET (peak 9), by the outlets' lean: left · center · right
Oct 1212 PMOct 1312 PMNew York PostNew York PostNew York Post, Oct 11, 6:02 PM ET: Grandpa ID’d as crazed killer who shot 9 — including own kids, grandkids — in Pa. murder-suicide: relativesAPAPAP, Oct 11, 7:02 PM ET: Pennsylvania shooter who killed 8 was family’s patriarch, slain toddler’s dad saysThe GuardianThe GuardianThe Guardian, Oct 11, 8:02 PM ET: Pennsylvania shooter who killed eight was a grandfather, says slain child’s dadNewsmaxNewsmaxNewsmax, Oct 11, 8:02 PM ET: Pa. Shooter Who Killed 8 Was Family's PatriarchThe Epoch TimesThe Epoch TimesThe Epoch Times, Oct 12, 12:02 AM ET: Pennsylvania Shooter Who Killed 8 Was Family’s Patriarch, Father of Toddler Killed SaysYahoo NewsYahoo NewsYahoo News, Oct 12, 6:02 AM ET: Gunman who killed 8 people, including relatives and children, was family's patriarchNBC NewsNBC NewsNBC News, Oct 12, 8:02 AM ET: Pennsylvania shooter who killed 8 was family’s patriarch, father of slain toddler saysNews NationNews NationNews Nation, Oct 12, 10:02 AM ET: Grandfather suspected of killing relatives in Erie, Pennsylvania, shootingThe Daily WireThe Daily WireThe Daily Wire, Oct 12, 12:02 PM ET: Gunman Who Killed Nine In House Shooting ID’d As Victim’s Grandpa📺 TVFox News, 2:31 PM ET: ACCUSED MN HIGH SCHOOL SHOOTER RELEASED ON BONDFox News, 2:32 PM ET: ACCUSED MN HIGH SCHOOL SHOOTER RELEASED ON BOND
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. Beneath, its captions on TV, the radio newscasts that carried it (bigger: the lead) and when people were found retelling it. Hover for details.

📌 linked by aggregators: Google News

🗣️ only one side says: 🫏 pennsylvania shooter

Every outlet's first headline (9), left to right by AllSides rating

📡 Broadcast

TV, radio, and the shows that talked about it

📺 On TV

Fox News16 s
  • ACCUSED MN HIGH SCHOOL SHOOTER RELEASED ON BOND Fox News, 16 s

🧶 Retelling

what people online made of it

🦗 Nobody's retelling it online yet, as far as the daily reports of the last week can tell.

🗣️ names in it: Pennsylvania Father of Slain Toddler Grandfather Family's Patriarch Slain Child's Dad

🔎 Checking

what the fact-checkers looked into

🧐 No fact-checker has taken it on yet.

🧵 Persistence

the running story it belongs to

🧵 Erie family massacre

  1. Pennsylvania shooter killed 8 including relatives and children (this story)

    Oct 12, 10 AM ET

  2. Mass shooting leaves 9 dead in Erie, Pennsylvania

    Oct 10, 12 PM ET

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