Ryan Hinton was killed by an officer who was responding to a report of a stolen vehicle on Thursday morning, officials said.
  • andros_rex@lemmy.world
    2·
    22 hours ago

    “Father of,” establishes the father as the subject. “18 year old fatally shot by Ohio police,”

    No. The subject is the father yes, but you can’t cut off the “of” that way.

    • Steve@communick.newsEnglish
      11·
      19 hours ago

      But using those words you’d have to, to establish that it isn’t actually the father who was shot, but the 18 year old.

      The terrible use commas comes from the terrible word choice. Rewriting the entire sentence would be the best option.