The Downside to Google Alerts
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The reports of my death are premature
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May 4, 2006
Like any good ego-driven writer, I signed up for Google Alerts, which lets me know when my name is mentioned on the web (more or less). It's been sort of useless except from time to time when an article gets published of mine that I didn't know the pub date of. But every now and then...
5 killings in 1 week: No special cause seen
By Mike Wiser
ROCKFORD REGISTER STAR
ROCKFORD — Estimates are Pamela Holmstrom had no more than $70 on her when someone put a bullet in her head Sunday night.
To Holmstrom’s killer, that $70 — probably a high estimate considering the cab fares that can be collected on a Sunday night in Rockford — must have mattered more than the life of a 53-year-old mother of three who drove for Action Taxi to make ends meet.
It’s not clear what transpired before someone beat 30-year-old Rapheal A. Wheatley to a broken, bloody mess with a baseball bat and left him in a park the Sunday before Holmstrom died.
Police believe there was a party, some drinking and an argument, maybe over some ongoing beef, but they won’t elaborate. They also believe they caught a culprit, 22-year-old Jamal R. Harmon.
Those two killings bookend a violent week that began April 23 and ended on April 30 during which five people died at the hands of others in the city.
There also was 34-year-old Mark Terry, who took a bullet to the chest April 26, and 81-year-old Cornetta Brown and her home health-care assistant Whitney D. Bryant, 69, both of whom were found the morning of April 27, stabbed repeatedly in the chest and head in Brown’s home.
What’s more, there are no simple explanations why the city experienced such violence in such a short period....
Well, my condolences to all. And isn't this article kind of, oh, I don't know, morbid? I mean this line: "...to a broken, bloody mess with a baseball bat..." Nice, balanced journalism, guys.
Best,
Mark Terry
Like any good ego-driven writer, I signed up for Google Alerts, which lets me know when my name is mentioned on the web (more or less). It's been sort of useless except from time to time when an article gets published of mine that I didn't know the pub date of. But every now and then...
5 killings in 1 week: No special cause seen
By Mike Wiser
ROCKFORD REGISTER STAR
ROCKFORD — Estimates are Pamela Holmstrom had no more than $70 on her when someone put a bullet in her head Sunday night.
To Holmstrom’s killer, that $70 — probably a high estimate considering the cab fares that can be collected on a Sunday night in Rockford — must have mattered more than the life of a 53-year-old mother of three who drove for Action Taxi to make ends meet.
It’s not clear what transpired before someone beat 30-year-old Rapheal A. Wheatley to a broken, bloody mess with a baseball bat and left him in a park the Sunday before Holmstrom died.
Police believe there was a party, some drinking and an argument, maybe over some ongoing beef, but they won’t elaborate. They also believe they caught a culprit, 22-year-old Jamal R. Harmon.
Those two killings bookend a violent week that began April 23 and ended on April 30 during which five people died at the hands of others in the city.
There also was 34-year-old Mark Terry, who took a bullet to the chest April 26, and 81-year-old Cornetta Brown and her home health-care assistant Whitney D. Bryant, 69, both of whom were found the morning of April 27, stabbed repeatedly in the chest and head in Brown’s home.
What’s more, there are no simple explanations why the city experienced such violence in such a short period....
Well, my condolences to all. And isn't this article kind of, oh, I don't know, morbid? I mean this line: "...to a broken, bloody mess with a baseball bat..." Nice, balanced journalism, guys.
Best,
Mark Terry
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