Woman shot outside Virginia GOP headquarters; manhunt underway

🗞️ Story file #1148

Woman shot outside Virginia GOP headquarters; manhunt underway

Oct 29, 5 PM ET to Oct 30, 5 AM ET

9outlets carried it
🫏2 · 0 · 7🐘left · center · right
12 hourson the front pages
9front pages at once, at its peak

👣 How this story traveled: from the front pages that broke it, out through TV, radio and the shows, into what people retold and what fact-checkers examined, and on into the saga it is part of. Everything here is matched to the story by our tools, so a link can be wrong; the trackers' pages say how each is made.

Oct 29, 5 PM ETfirst on a front page: AP
Oct 29, 9 PM ETpeak: on 9 front pages

the front pages that ran it, hour by hour

Front pages carrying it at each hourly run, Oct 29, 5 PM to Oct 30, 5 AM ET (peak 9), by the outlets' lean: left · right

Who carried it and when: each outlet in the order it picked the story up, a bar for each headline from when we first saw it on the front page to when we last did, in the outlet's lean color (dashed: not rated); a dot marks a new headline, and a headline swapped for a new one between our hourly looks runs on to it. A gap means a look found the story gone from that front page. Beneath, its captions on TV, the radio newscasts that carried it (bigger: the lead) and when people were found retelling it. Hover for details.

💬 Quoted

“no indication”1

phrases its headlines put in quotation marks; the bar is how many outlets did

✏️ 3 outlets ran more than one headline on it (reworded, or a follow-up)

Fox News (2 wordings): “Woman shot outside Virginia Republican Party headquarters days before midterm elections” → “Woman shot outside Virginia GOP headquarters in Richmond, party confirms”
The Washington Post (2 wordings): “Woman shot outside Virginia GOP offices; state party says incident unrelated to operations” → “Woman shot outside Virginia GOP offices; party says it was unrelated to operations”
Washington Examiner (2 wordings): “Manhunt underway after shooting near Republican Party HQ in Virginia” → “Woman in custody after shooting near Republican Party HQ in Virginia”

Every outlet's first headline (9), left to right by AllSides rating