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[quote=jsteele][quote=Anonymous]Jeff, I need to take you to task over your subject line. I'm going to guess maybe you didn't read the story you posted closely enough, but your use of the phrase "execution style" to describe the shootings is baseless and inflammatory.

If you read the story again, no on in authority makes that comparison. Rather, it is an allegation hurled by people reacting to the murders on Facebook and other social media.  To wit: "The shooting has been met with an outpouring of anger on social media, where people posting new pictures of the victims studying and playing basketball claimed they had been “murdered execution style”.

You're smart enough to know the imagery "execution style" evokes -- on their knees, gun to the temple. There's no actual evidence of fact that the slayings happened this way. Not from police, not from a medical examiner. It's merely the claim of some angry person on social media reacting to the news. You really should delete the use of those words in your subject line.[/quote]

That seems like an extremely trivial point to argue, but the first article to which I linked said this:

"Sources told local WRAL News that all three had been shot in the head."

If that does not sound like executions to you, I will concede the point. The important aspect is not whether they were on their knees, but that that they were premeditatively murdered.

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