Journalism 101, Who needs it?

Here is a news story about a crazy gunman in Canada which would be unremarkable except for the way it is written. Two paragraphs in particular caught my attention. The first:

“Delorme said some officers were at the school on an unrelated matter when the shooting erupted. He said reinforcements rushed to the scene and took part in the shooting.”

That makes it sound like it was a shooting party for the cops. Imagine the radio call “Get here quick and get a shot in before we kill him.”

The next paragraph explains how he dies:
“Eventually, Barone said, the gunman went down in a hail of gunfire.”
Did he really say that? Maybe he did, but earlier in the story there’s a bit about a website created by the gunman and he describes how he wants to die “… in a hail of gunfire.” Coincidence, I don’t think so. Also strange is the fact that the statement attributed to Barone isn’t in quotes, so we’re led to believe it’s paraphrased. Or maybe the writer isn’t aware of this journalistic practice.

Just wondering who’s teaching and graduating from journalism school these days.