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    Can refusing to name mass shooters help prevent violence?

    Sep 06, 2019 2 minutes
    —ALEJANDRO DE LA GARZA
    —Suyin Haynes

    AFTER AN AUG. 31 MASS SHOOTING IN WEST Texas, as questions swirled about the event that had left seven people dead and 22 injured, Odessa police chief Michael Gerke declared that one question would remain unanswered: the shooter’s identity.

    “I’m not going to give him any notoriety for what he did,” Gerke said

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