Rollie Chance, misidentified as Navy Yard shooter, demands media accountability
Source: Washington Post
Rollie Chance was home in Stafford, about 40 miles south of Washington, when he began watching the news about the shootings at the Washington Navy Yard Monday morning. A retired Navy lieutenant, he had worked in Building 197 on the fourth floor and was worried that some of his friends and former colleagues might have been killed.
Then shortly after noon, he got a phone call from someone who said they were with ABC News. “They asked me if I knew Rollie Chance,” Rollie Chance said. “Then they said, ‘Did you know Rollie Chance was the perpetrator of the Washington Navy Yard shootings?’”
Chance, 50, thought the call was a joke. He told the caller, “I guarantee you 100 percent Rollie Chance didn’t do it,” and hung up.
Moments later, FBI agents arrived at his home. Soon after, reporters began piling up at the curb. And on Twitter, reporters for both NBC and CBS named Chance as the now-deceased killer. CBS also identified Chance on national radio. ABC, which called Chance, did not report any connection.
Read more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/rollie-chance-misidentified-as-navy-yard-shooter-demands-media-accountability/2013/09/20/7226087e-221b-11e3-966c-9c4293c47ebe_story.html
In 1996, there was Richard Jewell.
In 2012, the other James Holmes.
In 2013, that New York Post cover falsely accusing two young men of being the Boston Bombers and then this latest victim of false perp identification.
When will it EVER end?
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