The Shaw Tragedy

Posted on March 12th, 2008 10:06am by Wick Allison
Filed under Media

The coverage team at the News on the Shaw murder-suicide deserves a clap or two for its excellent reportage on deadline. (Meanwhile, Rufus Shaw’s last column is still up on dallasblog.com, which I find, I don’t know, kind of eerie.)

6 Comments to “The Shaw Tragedy”
  • Anonymouse @ March 12th, 2008 at 10:09 am

    A lot of people are using that last column to express their sympathies and well-wishes to the son left behind, so I think it’s appropriate that it be left up.

  • DMN did good @ March 12th, 2008 at 11:24 am

    Wow, that may be the most well written DMN article ever. What a tragedy. I can’t imagine being their son right now; everyone keep him in thought.

  • Maggie @ March 12th, 2008 at 11:39 am

    I agree, I think the DMN has done a fantastic job covering this tragedy. I haven’t seen very much from the paper since I moved here warranting praise, but they certainly do today.

  • Daniel @ March 12th, 2008 at 1:41 pm

    The DMN is actually the source for a developing local story. It’s like 1993 all over again. Don’t stop thinking about tomorrow.

  • jrp @ March 12th, 2008 at 1:42 pm

    lindenberger is a stud reporter…keep track of his coverage of DART, SH 121 etc. and you’ll see why

    and someone please mark the date and time, as frontburner shout outs for the DMN don’t happen too often

  • Harvey Lacey @ March 12th, 2008 at 8:18 pm

    My heart also goes out to the son.

    Seven or eight years ago while at the doctor I mentioned some chest pains. Along with antibiotics or whatever he’d prescribed for what I was in for he added a prescription for some nitroglycerin capsuls. He said, “if you get a chest pain put a capsul under your tongue. If the pain stops go straight to an emergency room. If you get a splitting headache then it’s not your heart causing the chest pain.”

    I went to the pharmacy with the prescriptions. My daughter worked there. She was twenty two or twenty three at the time.

    Some people can walk into a room and no one will notice. I’m not one of those people. As I usually do I was giving everyone heck by the bucketfull.

    Then out of the corner of my eye I saw my daughter in profile entering my prescription information on the computer. There were tears running down her face.

    It was a life altering moment for me. Right then I got it. My life didn’t just belong to me.

    I wish the Shaws could have been as lucky as me.

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