As if society has not been subjected to enough tragedy from the news already and we are just continually stricken with death after death. SF gate's front online page conveyed this (and i am even more affected and frightened by this because it occurred very near to us and recently) :
HAYWARD Grief over shootings of two 4-year-old girls
Police seek motive in drive-by that hit only children
Polly Snell fixed her grief-laden gaze Tuesday on the blood-spattered sidewalk and front yard of a Hayward home where two 4-year-old girls were shot in the head during a drive-by shooting the night before.
"It's heartbreaking -- it really hurts," said Snell, 53, the great-great aunt of the girls, who are cousins. "They're angels. I wish to God they'll pull through this. I hope they do. Anything's possible. But where they got shot at, it's bad, real bad."
As the girls clung to life Tuesday at Children's Hospital Oakland, where family members kept a vigil, Hayward police tried to find a motive in Monday night's shooting at the home on the 27700 block of Seminole Way.
No arrests have been made, and there have been no other drive-by shootings recently in the neighborhood off West Tennyson Road near Interstate 880. Hayward police would not say whether they believed any adults at the home had been singled out for retaliation or any other reason.
Police seek motive in drive-by that hit only children
Polly Snell fixed her grief-laden gaze Tuesday on the blood-spattered sidewalk and front yard of a Hayward home where two 4-year-old girls were shot in the head during a drive-by shooting the night before.
"It's heartbreaking -- it really hurts," said Snell, 53, the great-great aunt of the girls, who are cousins. "They're angels. I wish to God they'll pull through this. I hope they do. Anything's possible. But where they got shot at, it's bad, real bad."
As the girls clung to life Tuesday at Children's Hospital Oakland, where family members kept a vigil, Hayward police tried to find a motive in Monday night's shooting at the home on the 27700 block of Seminole Way.
No arrests have been made, and there have been no other drive-by shootings recently in the neighborhood off West Tennyson Road near Interstate 880. Hayward police would not say whether they believed any adults at the home had been singled out for retaliation or any other reason.
AND AGAIN................WAS THIS PICTURE REALLY NECESSARY? HOW SAD IS THIS!!!!!!?!
2 comments:
well at least this wasn't wasn't quite as gorey as the last. and even more importantly, thank god they didn't try to post pics of the girls! can you even imagine how devastating that would have been? to be honest, as your page was loading it scrolled a little bit and i saw the pic first. i had no idea what it was of or that there was anything disturbing about it at all until after i started reading. i don't think this pic is necessarily bad, but it also doesn't serve any real purpose. maybe a shot of the parents would have been better.
This event is so unfortunate, and I'm shocked that people can shoot someone. The picture posted really makes the reader connect with the fact that two children were shot, seeing the little car and blood on it is a horrible mixture. I don't enjoy seeing pictures like this, but I do believe that such dramatic pictures lure in readers to read the article.
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