Chesterfield, Indiana -- Man was facing child molestation charges, so he murdered his girlfriend?
"The man who police say shot and killed his girlfriend before turning the gun on himself Sunday... was facing charges of child molestation... Police found the body of 36-year-old Aaron L. Wagers and his girlfriend, 25-year-old Megan Rider, Sunday morning... http://www.wishtv.com/dpp/news/local/north_central/suspect-in-murder-suicide-...
REMINDER TO THE MEDIA:
Trag·e·dy (trj-d) n. pl. trag·e·dies - 1. A drama or literary work in which the main character is brought to ruin or suffers extreme sorrow, especially as a consequence of a tragic flaw, moral weakness, or inability to cope with unfavorable circumstances. 2. The genre made up of such works. 3. The art or theory of writing or producing these works. 4. A play, film, television program, or other narrative work that portrays or depicts calamitous events and has an unhappy but meaningful ending. 5. A disastrous event, especially one involving distressing loss or injury to life: an expedition that ended in tragedy, with all hands lost at sea. 6. A tragic aspect or element.
Murders are not "tragedies." Stop using the illiterate word "tragedy" to describe domestic homicide, infanticide and familicide. "Tragedy" refers to the outcome from the point of view of the protagonist, i.e. perpetrator, his suffering of an accidental, unpredictable, inexplicable, unavoidable, and unintentional outcome, his misfortune. Crimes are not "tragedies" but outrages..
