musicals4life

musicals4life t1_ixid6hj wrote

It can sound like semantics but words have meaning and we should use the correct ones to describe a situation. Interchanging words with different meanings is how you end up with misinformation and half truths.

The differences here are also important for understanding how and why these events occur. If you classify a spree killer as a mass murder your investigation is going in the wrong direction.

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musicals4life t1_ixi12nm wrote

Not so fun fact, by definition this event would be a "spree killing" and not a mass murder. A mass murder requires all the victims to be in one location, where a spree killing is defined by the murders occurring in multiple locations within a short period of time. These 2 murders in different locations within a day is textbook spree killing. :(

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