An older man was beaten and stabbed to death by a younger piece ; they had coif a date . The new human wastracked down by policeusing the same iPhone social networking app that belike brought the two together . update
Ergo , the newspaper headline is not , “ Older Man Allegedly Stabbed to Death by Teenager ” or “ ‘ Date ’ Ends in Tragedy , ” but “ iPhone ’s Gay Social Networking App lead to Murder of Phoenix Man , Police Claim . ”
In fact , it ’s noteworthy how much agency this Gay Social Networking iPhone has : “ On Tuesday , police tracked down a suspect whose iPhone arranged the date with Woodland and correspond the description of the man given to police . ” Not that the younger man was really look for a vulnerable victim , an flat to ransack .
And this homicidal gay app , “ used by homophile men to glom up ” to do presumptively gay thing , it knows how to retrieve you ! “ The app uses a Global Positioning System pose organization to place ‘ date ’ based on a individual ’s law of proximity with other users . ” Not like steady dating land site — sans quotes around date — where you recite it where you are .
Oddly , while the paper names the 19 - class - old who allegedly did the stabbing and the beating , Tommy Reed , and the victim , 54 - year - old Mark Woodland , it does n’t name the app . It ’s so unseemly , it goes unstated .
And everyone walk away satisfied , like at the end of a made - for - TV picture : citizenry who know the internet and thing like the I - Phone are the downfall of society , and multitude who bed that festal things are bad and wrong .
Update : FWIW , here ’s the latest statement by the Phoenix Police Department , though it does n’t change the way the story was covered :
Hello all . Our investigator have learned through this continuing probe that it was not the “ Grinder ” IPHONE app that was used by the victim to make contact with the suspect , it was in fact a different social web . Because this investigation is continuing , I do not have the selective information regarding the real site that was used . I would need that , as you continue to report this grizzly offense to your viewers readers and listener , you use “ unknown societal meshing ” in regards to how the dupe and suspect were connected .
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