TexasCHLforum.com

G26ster wrote:

C-dub wrote:
I don't know how I'm missing it. I did a CTRL+F search for the word "hospital" and only came up with one hit on the page in this sentence.

Police said the 51-year-old man, who also entered the apartment, "sustained trauma to the torso during the incident" and was pronounced dead at hospital.

Looks like you found it to me. That's the quote in question in bold.

Okay. I noticed the missing "the", but was focusing on the other words. Sorry.

G26ster wrote:

C-dub wrote:

bigity wrote:"..died at hospital."

Maybe the writer is not a native English speaker and that's why the article is so bad?

That quote is not in the article now, so maybe it was corrected.

IMHO nothing to correct as it is correct English, just not common "American" English. Yahoo News is a world wide website, so why should they be restricted to reports only written in American English?

BTW, I just looked again and it's still there in the article linked.

I don't know how I'm missing it. I did a CTRL+F search for the word "hospital" and only came up with one hit on the page in this sentence.

Police said the 51-year-old man, who also entered the apartment, "sustained trauma to the torso during the incident" and was pronounced dead at hospital.

And one hit on the word "died" with the same method in this sentence.

The medical examiner's office said Laureano died from a gunshot wound to the back and declared his death a homicide.

bigity wrote:"..died at hospital."

Maybe the writer is not a native English speaker and that's why the article is so bad?

That quote is not in the article now, so maybe it was corrected. However, I know many people that English is their first language that cannot write that well. Sometimes I am one of them. We can't all be as eloquent as TAM.

The article does say that the 51y old man was shot by mistake. To me, there is a difference between mistake and accident or getting hit by crossfire, but of course there are not enough details or facts in this article to make any conclusions either way. We'll just have to wait and see.