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.
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.
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.
Of course you can change it
In the pursuit of truth and honesty, no, no title should be edited when posting articles. Unless there’s an egregious error.
It’s also a community rule and just general good faithness for discussions.
Whether or not that headline is an egregious error, in and of itself, is arguable. I would say that making it less sensational is preferable to making it an exact copy.
The rule says it can be edited and it will not be deleted if the title represents the article properly.
And who gets to decide it represents it properly? A mods opinion, you know what removes doubt and bias, just not changing it.
But that’s not what the rule says. Yes, I guess a mod does, okay?
There is bias in the title as it misrepresents, so…
There’s not a bias, there’s a miscommunication.
What bias is it telling you?
Its the intent of the rule.
Fucking weird that the murderer ended up dead in the mom’s bathtub. I wonder if mom killed him?
/j
I know you’re joking but the inclusion of the genderd pronoun does make it more clear about who was found in the tub.
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Slayyy
Not the time.
When else could I possibly make this joke? It’s the inappropriateness that’s the point!
