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Of all the media outlets in all the world that have been covering the shootings (including my hometown paper, which has put together one of the most comprehensive reports), the biggest break so far seems to have come from Michael Sneed, who reported Monday evening on a possible suspect. She doesn’t give a name, but the information she does give is highly specific–a 24-year-old man who arrived in the country on a student visa, via Shanghai, on Aug. 7. If this suspect turns out to be the perpetrator, it will be the Sun-Times, as far as I can tell, that was first to identify (if not necessarily name) the killer.
Eric Zorn makes a difficult but salient point: this happens every day in Baghdad. Larry Johnson, a former CIA analyst and State department official, has a similar take. FWIW, the city of Chicago reports 46 murders through February of this year (PDF).
