Newspapers Remember the Local Lives That Were Extinguished
A pair of powerful front-page stories.
It’s a powerful way, at the turn of a new year, to frame the topic of homicide: remind readers, chronologically, of the community residents whose lives were violently extinguished the previous year.
For Gannett’s Daily Advertiser in Lafayette, La., reporter Seth Dickerson concentrated this weekend on death by gun violence. His list includes a pair of victims from the Trainwreck movie theater shooting:
Jillian Johnson
Mayci Breaux
Ages: 33 and 21
Died: July 23Breaux and Johnson died in a shooting at the Grand 16 Theatre, an event that rocked Lafayette this summer.
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