Another Scary Pokémon Go Headline

San Francisco authorities are still sorting out the details.

SFExaminer_8_8The location in San Francisco where 20-year-old university student Calvin Riley was shot and killed Saturday night is a few dozen blocks from the headquarters of Niantic Inc. Although the developers of Pokémon Go bear only, at most, incidental responsibility for this senseless murder, the role played by the game in such situations is once again being debated.

For today’s San Francisco Examiner front-page story, reporter Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez spoke with Patricia Hernandez, deputy editor of Gawker Media videogame news site Kotaku.

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