National News: University of Memphis student killed on campus
Star Tribune/AP: University of Memphis student fatally shot
CNN: University of Memphis football player killed on campus
At around 9:45p.m. Sunday night 21-year-old Taylor Bradford, a University of Memphis football player, was shot outside a campus residence hall. After being shot, Bradford got into a car and shortly after crashed into a tree. Bradford was taken to Regional Medical Center where he was pronounced dead. The initial police investigation says this was likely a targeted attack, but as a precaution the university is closed Monday.
The thing that stood out most to me about this was the use of headlines. How important is the fact that Taylor Bradford was a football player to the story? At this point it is hard to say. If this proves to be why he was targeted then of course it is relevent, but if this ends up not being the case, then it may be just adding hype to the story. This information is definately worthy of being in the story, but placing it within the headline as CNN has done may not be the most important information.
Also, the Star Tribune/AP article is a textbook example of the inverted pyramid structure.