With the gunman at large, the FBI offers a $100,000 reward for information. Officials earlier said they found a rifle in a nearby wooded area.

The suspect is still at large - officials earlier said they found a high-powered rifle in woods near where Kirk was shot.

Also, “high powered rifle” essentially means “not a 22”.

  • P00ptart@lemmy.world
    51·
    2 days ago

    A week from now it won’t matter that the reporting was wrong because it’s already fact in the minds of their audience.

      • pivot_root@lemmy.world
        13·
        2 days ago

        Investigators found ammunition engraved with expressions of transgender and antifascist ideology inside the rifle that authorities believe was used in the fatal shooting of Charlie Kirk, according to an internal law-enforcement bulletin and a person familiar with the investigation.

        Without the actual text, for all we know, it says “we all have rights”. I would be entirely unsurprised if a right-wing agency head decides that it warrants looking into left-leaning individuals, then someone leaks it to the press to start the dissemination of that narrative that it was proved to be a left-wing shooter before anyone actually caught him.

        • P00ptart@lemmy.world
          1·
          7 hours ago

          I know it has since come to light that he was alt-right, but anything written on evidence would likely be to throw off the investigation if one was smart. Print an AI manifesto of everything you’re against to throw off the scent to buy time. If I were ever to do such a thing, mine would all say “LOL!” Or “boner” or something. But that’s just cause I’m juvenile, not psychotic, and thus would never really do such a thing in the first place.