People killed in Memphis
March 3rd, 2008
My positive psychology professor lectures that the reason people are negative and depressed is because we see the world in an artificially negative way because of the media. Take, for example, the current head story on CNN.com:
Six people were killed, including two children, and another three children wounded in a shooting Monday in Memphis, Tennessee, authorities said.
Memphis Fire Department spokeswoman Melanie Young said firefighters responded to a 911 call at a home at 6:11 p.m. Monday when the bodies and wounded children were found.
The wounded children — a 7-year-old boy, a 10-month-old girl and a 4-year-old whose gender wasn’t immediately known — were transported to Le Bonheur Children’s Medical Center.
They were in the emergency room being treated for gunshot wounds, said hospital spokeswoman Jennilyn Utkov.
The Commercial Appeal newspaper is reporting that police do not have a motive.
“We just don’t know the motive or cause of death, but we do have four adults and two children (dead),” Memphis police Lt. Jerry Guin said. “I’ve been on a scene where there were one or two or three (victims), but I don’t remember anything this large.”
Is it any wonder we’re all sad?
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