The two bodies found in a second floor room at the E-Z 8 Motel in Newark Friday morning were that of a 24-year-old Livermore man and a 17-year-old Pleasanton girl, according to the Newark Police Department.
They sustained gunshot wounds and were pronounced dead at the scene. Police are investigating the case as a murder-suicide or a double suicide.
Though authorities have not released the identities of the victims, family and friends confirmed that the teenage victim was Patricia Martin, route: {:controller=>"articles", :action=>"show", :id=>"missing-pleasanton-teen-found-dead-in-newark-believed-to-be-patricia-martin"} -->, who was
I can tell we both desire to protect this family. I can appreciate your concern, but please know I have not and will not say anything that the family has not publicly said. It's so hard to see people judge this mom when I feel it is obvious they don't know her. So I know I'm not perfect and maybe I'm not saying it the perfect way, but my heart is truly in the right place and I just can't not say anything when such things are said about her because I feel I owe Tricia and her family more. The comments such as the one above are causing more pain and sadness for those that love Tricia and her family, many of which are still children themselves. I will continue to be very mindful of what I say as the last thing I would ever want to do is cause any more pain for her lived ones. I do think this is something most of us have in common. I think it is also right to defend them when they are unfairly attacked by people who do not know them.
There are too many grey haired boys walking around today.
Here's an idea on something kids can do: introduce them (and yourself) to a library. People might listen more when they see a well-composed sentence. That'd probably be too hard though, especially when you could just ask the taxpayers to buy the poorly-parented kids a new rec center.
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CNN's Website Links to this Story, you know the City of Newark is Relevant when Millions of people see it mentioned on such a Big Stage.
Why is this even a story? Very early on the mother said she thought she was with her "boyfriend" so this article is for nothing but to state what was already known so you could continue to attract readers as if this was something you had uncovered. You know she works for a rival news outlet and I would therefore think you would do certain things as a professional courtesy. The first would not to post articles that you make look like they include some selacious new detail when it is an item that was public before she was found. Second, I'm sure you've noticed that Pleasanton weekly has disabled comments on anything they've posted on the story out of respect for the mom. Are page views so important to you that you'd use the pain of a grieving mom to drive traffic to your page? Stop printing old news and disable the comments. Show some respect, even if it is fake and if you truly font care.
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