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| Slug/Label | P.E.I. double homicide |
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| Date Aired or Published | Aug. 20-21, 2014 |
| Media outlet where first aired or published: | The Guardian |
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| If co-produced, list partner: | Nigel Armstrong and Jocelyne Lloyd |
| Location: | Montague, P.E.I. |
| List awards, grants: | None |
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Short explanation of the story and how it developed: At about 9 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 20, Brent McGuigan, 68, and his son, 39-year-old Brendon McGuigan, were found shot to death in the older man's home on the St. Mary's Road outside of Montague, Prince Edward Island. Soon afterwards, RCMP set up a roadblock on the rural highway and social media chatter began speculating that a manhunt was underway. The Guardian contacted RCMP but were not given an interview until midnight -- after the next day's print edition had gone to print. Guardian reporters Nigel Armstrong in Charlottetown, Steve Sharratt in Montague and web editor Jocelyne Lloyd worked to get information and verify it, regularly updating Twitter, Facebook and The Guardian's website at www.theguardian.pe.ca throughout the night. The first story was posted at 11:30 p.m. with the headline "Possible double murder near Montague" and updated a few minutes later with the headline "Manhunt being carried out in Montague" using information Armstrong was able to get from a neighbour and Sharratt got unofficially from RCMP officers at the scene. By morning, the story carried the headline "Police charge Alfred Guy Vuozzo with two counts of murder" At about 9 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 20, Brent McGuigan, 68, and his son, 39-year-old Brendon McGuigan, were found shot to death in the older man's home on the St. Mary's Road outside of Montague, Prince Edward Island. Soon afterwards, RCMP set up a roadblock on the rural highway and social media chatter began speculating that a manhunt was underway. The Guardian contacted RCMP but were not given an interview until midnight -- after the next day's print edition had gone to print. Guardian reporters Nigel Armstrong in Charlottetown, Steve Sharratt in Montague and web editor Jocelyne Lloyd worked to get information and verify it, regularly updating Twitter, Facebook and The Guardian's website at www.theguardian.pe.ca throughout the night. The first story was posted at 11:30 p.m. with the headline "Possible double murder near Montague" and updated a few minutes later with the headline "Manhunt being carried out in Montague" using information Armstrong was able to get from a neighbour and Sharratt got unofficially from RCMP officers at the scene. By morning, the story carried the headline "Police charge Alfred Guy Vuozzo with two counts of murder". Our coverage included raw video of the media scrum with RCMP, a Google map of the location of the murder, another media scrum video the next day, as well as stories about the incident, man who was charged with double homicide and, in the following days, more about the victims and the families and shocked community they left behind. The following links show some of the progression of the story as the details became available: http://www.theguardian.pe.ca/News/Local/2014-08-21/article-3841973/RCMP-investigating-double-homicide-near-Montague/1 http://www.theguardian.pe.ca/News/Local/2014-08-21/article-3842455/Suspect-arrested-in-Montague/1 http://www.theguardian.pe.ca/News/Local/2014-08-20/article-3841862/Police-charge-Alfred-Guy-Vuozzo-with-two-counts-of-murder |
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Resources of the newsroom (money and time) available to complete the story: Three newsroom staff were committed to filing the developing story the night it occurred, with a fourth reporter, Ryan Ross, attending the RCMP news conference the next morning. |
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