Man arrested in slaying of 16-year-old cheerleader found dead in bathtub of Texas apartment
Man arrested in slaying of 16-year-old cheerleader found dead in bathtub of Texas apartment
Lizbeth Medina had aspired to become a nurse, according to her aunt.
Police have arrested a suspect in the killing of a 16-year-old cheerleader who was found dead by her mother in her bathtub earlier this week in Edna, Texas.
The Edna Police Department located the suspect, identified as Rafael Romero, on Saturday in Schulenburg, Texas.
The Texas Rangers, who investigate major violent crime as part of the state’s Department of Public Safety, arrested Romero for capital murder — which makes the suspect eligible for the death penalty if convicted — and took him to the Jackson County Jail.
Part of the reason this headline is a grammatical dumpster fire is that they tried to cram every possible prurient detail into the headline itself, relevance be damned.
Like, how very fascinating that the fact that the victim was a cheerleader rated space right up in the headline. If they wanted to cram in biographical details, aspiring nurse was right there, but they didn't go for that, and we all know why.
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OP, I know it's not your fault (probably) but that title makes it seem like the killer was found dead. If you had reformatted like: "Man arrested in connection with slain cheerleader foud dead in her mother's bathtub" it could have been made a little more clear. It isn't actually important to the story that the cheerleader was found in the bathtub and the title would have been much easier to understand without that bit of trivial information.
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I don't see how either of my suggestions alters the meaning of the title or misrepresents the article. Changing the title, in this case, should be encouraged.
I feel the only reason that the information about the bathtub was included was to get people subconsciously excited about naked bodies. Aka Click bait.
Yeah I had to pause reading the headline too but didn’t want to editorialize it.
Do you know what the word editorialize means? I think you meant edit.
Yeah titles weird, but can’t be changing it to post it even if it’s to make more sense. Everyone would be claiming that to sensationalize every post. Article title was copied verbatim.
It’s probably just accidental, but when I see actual news headlines like this, I wonder if they were purposely meant to be wrong, so that it would confuse and catch your attention, driving engagement. I literally thought they had arrested a dead guy in a tub for my first two scans of the headline. And now I’ve commented on a link to it, etc. it’s just kinda hard to believe it’s accidental since they’re writing professionally, and have tools at their disposal that can prevent this like editors and software checkers.
That said I suppose the other explanation is that they’re using software to produce their stuff, and in such a quantity/so few employees that this kind of weirdness just slips through all the time.
Fucking weird that the murderer ended up dead in the mom’s bathtub. I wonder if mom killed him?
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I know you're joking but the inclusion of the genderd pronoun does make it more clear about who was found in the tub.
Give the murderer the death penalty. See how he likes it when it's done to him.
Slayyy
Not the time.
When else could I possibly make this joke? It's the inappropriateness that's the point!