12. Fugitive Jordan F. Romero Shoots Himself
Nothing says good television like a good old fashioned car chase! So when Arizona fugitive Jordan F. Romero was on the run from the cops, Fox News picked up the story. Following a stolen Dodge Caliber, Megyn Kelly and Shepard Smith started to cover the event. The footage would ebb in and out, but the pair followed the action. Just a few years after O.J.’s car chase, news channels knew that chases like these were reliable for an audience. People liked the intrigue because it always seems certain the culprit will be caught, but they want to know how. So, as Shep Smith is following the action with his special brand of color commentary, he isn’t puzzled when Romero pulls into a field and gets out of the car. About thirty seconds before they cut the sound, Smith says, “Now this scares me. What are you doing out in the middle of nowhere, getting out of the car?” Not long afterward, Romero shoots himself in the head on the live broadcast, and in a whispered tone you can hear a muffled call to cut the broadcast, “get off! Get off it!”
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