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[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago (1 children)

He didn't donate to a progressive fund. That was a 69 year old man, with the same name, in Pittsburgh, not Bethel Park.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 5 months ago (2 children)

As I wrote up elsewhere, three major news sites that I generally trust all reported the same thing. Do you have proof that they're all wrong?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago (1 children)

https://imgur.com/a/6HGeXbB

there is the link. two screen shots. sorry, it won't let me put it in the comment.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

This is a good lesson in how much "research" goes into most breaking news. Those "trusted news sites" just saw a common first and last name and assumed it was the same guy.

It's just "Michael Bolton" all over again.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I got this information from other places. It has been circulating for some hours now. However, Looking at it again, for these comments, I realized 15102 is Bethel Park, so it was the shooter, however he made the donation under age, I guess.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

There's no confirmation of that. This is literally just a "Michael Bolton" situation. It could be him or an unrelated person.

My point is that the media has repeated it as fact, while the registration information used his full name (including middle) and birthday. Maybe address too (I forget). They just want to stir up drama before confirming anything.

You learn these things doing genealogy. You need a high number of data points to confirm who someone is. People get all excited if they have the same last name as a famous person. There are literally a million people with similar last names.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

This is actually a good point. I just did some internet searching and found 3 other Thomas/Tom Crooks in the Bethel Park area.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (2 children)

I do, how do I post screenshots, every time I try the comment comes up with no image./

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Yeah keeps unble to load image from imgur, and another place I have tried.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Links are better, esp. if there's an update to whatever the page is.

But just attach an image with the little "upload image" button (on web lemmy, it's next to the emoji button). If that doesn't work, perhaps there's an issue w/ your instance and you should instead use something like imgur.