Talk about a misleading article title...

[paulsby]

After shoplifting, Wash. man to spend life in jail
http://www.komonews.com/news/local/89877897.html
that's the article title
(life in jail. after SHOPLIFTING?)

well, after SHOPLIFTING, then SHOOTING at the store guards who attempted to apprehend them and after two previous serious felony strikes and after being deported and illegally reentering the country...

lol

and here's a hint. if you shoplift, then SHOOT at those trying to apprehend you, that's not a "shoplift". it's an armed robbery.

YAKIMA, Wash. (AP) - A 62-year-old Yakima County man will spend the rest of his life in prison after getting a third strike on his criminal record.

The Yakima Herald-Republic reports that Elodio Rizo was sentenced Friday in Yakima County Superior Court on convictions for first-degree robbery and two counts of first-degree assault. Rizo was arrested after a shoplifting incident at a Sears more than two years ago where shots were fired.

Rizo's previous strikes were both for second-degree assaults. He also entered the country after being deported.

In 2007, Rizo and an accomplice shoplifted bottles of perfumes valued at $165 from the Sears in Union Gap. After two store guards attempted to stop them, Rizo shot at the officers. He did not hit them.

[chill_wind]

1. The AP.

Does it seem like the most basic rudiments of every day press writing aren't being taught any more?

[pinboy3niner]

2. Nice catch. I like the writer's choice of words and phrasing..

where it says, " . . . after a shoplifting incident . . . where shots were fired." It's the second graf and it's made to sound like the guy just happened to be strolling by when somebody else was having a firefight. Journalism schmournalism!