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The only other story deemed sufficiently newsworthy to be covered by a correspondent on all three newscasts was the carnage at the Latin Impact aerobic dance class at an LA Fitness gym in suburban Pittsburgh on Tuesday night. A suicidal gunman barged in, switched off the lights, sprayed the class with 36 bullets, killed three female dancers, wounded nine others and then shot himself fatally too. CBS' Susan Koeppen suggested that the killer selected the class because it was filled with women. In a suicide note he left at the scene he "complains he never spent a weekend with a girl, never lived with a woman and only had sex a few times."
The man was George Sodini, a 48-year-old member of LA Fitness and a systems analyst at a law firm. Sodini was a blogger. NBC's Mike Taibbi quoted from his posts that he had not had a girlfriend since 1984: "30m women rejected me…Every evening I am alone." ABC's John Berman called the blog "extraordinary" and "murderous" in that Sodini explicitly posted his plans to commit the murders. "His last line was simply Death Lives." Articulating the horror that haunts all bloggers, Berman reported that police "are not even sure whether anyone read Sodini's lonely blog…If someone had read it they really should have reported it to somebody."
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