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Man dies from shooting on Marquette Street in Fayetteville ⁠1%

By WRAL Staff⁠11%

7/25/2026, 5:18:12 AM

BS Summary: This article contains 1 faulty reasoning type, including Biased Writer Voice, with Biased Writer Voice as the most egregious example at 19% saturation with 16 hits. Analysis detected 16 faulty-reasoning hits from 84 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 6.3% and a BS Rank of ⁠1% (21,701 of 21,887 articles). This article is better (less manipulative) than 99.20% of the article peer group.

The Cumberland County Sheriff's Department is investigating a homicide that happened early Saturday morning in Fayetteville. 
Deputies responded to the 6000 block of Marquette Street around 4:40 a.m. for reports of an assault. 
When they arrived, they discovered a man with a gunshot wound. 
He was transported to Cape Fear Valley Medical Center where he died of his injuries. 
The suspect was arrested, and the Cumberland County Sheriff's Office Homicide Unit is investigating this shooting. 
Article reasoning-pattern comparisonThis article: 0.0%WRAL staff: 1.3%WRAL: 3.4%Confirmation Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%WRAL staff: 0.7%WRAL: 0.9%Anchoring Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%WRAL staff: 1.9%WRAL: 3.0%Availability Heuristic0.0%This article: 0.0%WRAL staff: 0.8%WRAL: 0.7%Representativeness Heuristic0.0%This article: 0.0%WRAL staff: 0.0%WRAL: 0.2%Hindsight Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%WRAL staff: 0.0%WRAL: 1.5%Overconfidence Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%WRAL staff: 3.2%WRAL: 7.5%Framing Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%WRAL staff: 0.0%WRAL: 0.2%Loss Aversion0.0%This article: 0.0%WRAL staff: 0.0%WRAL: 0.4%Status Quo Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%WRAL staff: 0.0%WRAL: 0.1%Sunk Cost Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%WRAL staff: 2.1%WRAL: 1.6%Optimism Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%WRAL staff: 0.6%WRAL: 2.0%Pessimism Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%WRAL staff: 2.5%WRAL: 7.7%Negativity Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%WRAL staff: 0.0%WRAL: 2.9%Self-Serving Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%WRAL staff: 0.0%WRAL: 0.8%Fundamental Attribution Error0.0%This article: 0.0%WRAL staff: 0.5%WRAL: 0.2%Actor-Observer Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%WRAL staff: 0.0%WRAL: 1.2%In-Group Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%WRAL staff: 0.0%WRAL: 0.3%Out-Group Homogeneity Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%WRAL staff: 6.1%WRAL: 1.1%Halo Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%WRAL staff: 0.0%WRAL: 0.2%Horn Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%WRAL staff: 0.0%WRAL: 0.0%Dunning-Kruger Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%WRAL staff: 0.4%WRAL: 1.4%Recency Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%WRAL staff: 0.0%WRAL: 0.2%Primacy Effect0.0%This article: 0.0%WRAL staff: 0.0%WRAL: 0.0%Blind-Spot Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%WRAL staff: 0.0%WRAL: 0.6%Ad Hominem0.0%This article: 0.0%WRAL staff: 0.0%WRAL: 0.1%Straw Man0.0%This article: 0.0%WRAL staff: 8.4%WRAL: 2.5%Appeal to Authority0.0%This article: 0.0%WRAL staff: 0.0%WRAL: 1.5%False Dilemma0.0%This article: 0.0%WRAL staff: 0.0%WRAL: 1.3%Slippery Slope0.0%This article: 0.0%WRAL staff: 0.0%WRAL: 0.1%Circular Reasoning0.0%This article: 0.0%WRAL staff: 2.3%WRAL: 3.1%Hasty Generalization0.0%This article: 0.0%WRAL staff: 0.0%WRAL: 0.4%Red Herring0.0%This article: 0.0%WRAL staff: 0.0%WRAL: 0.2%Bandwagon0.0%This article: 0.0%WRAL staff: 2.8%WRAL: 6.8%Appeal to Emotion0.0%This article: 0.0%WRAL staff: 0.0%WRAL: 0.7%Begging the Question0.0%This article: 0.0%WRAL staff: 1.4%WRAL: 2.6%Post Hoc (False Cause)0.0%This article: 0.0%WRAL staff: 0.0%WRAL: 0.1%Tu Quoque0.0%This article: 0.0%WRAL staff: 0.0%WRAL: 0.5%Burden of Proof0.0%This article: 0.0%WRAL staff: 0.0%WRAL: 0.1%Appeal to Nature0.0%This article: 0.0%WRAL staff: 0.0%WRAL: 0.1%Composition/Division0.0%This article: 0.0%WRAL staff: 1.7%WRAL: 1.7%Anecdotal0.0%This article: 0.0%WRAL staff: 0.0%WRAL: 0.0%No True Scotsman0.0%This article: 0.0%WRAL staff: 0.5%WRAL: 1.1%Ambiguity (Equivocation)0.0%This article: 0.0%WRAL staff: 0.0%WRAL: 0.0%Gambler’s Fallacy0.0%This article: 0.0%WRAL staff: 0.0%WRAL: 0.1%Middle Ground0.0%This article: 0.0%WRAL staff: 0.0%WRAL: 0.2%Personal Incredulity0.0%This article: 0.0%WRAL staff: 0.0%WRAL: 0.3%Special Pleading0.0%This article: 0.0%WRAL staff: 0.0%WRAL: 0.3%Genetic Fallacy0.0%This article: 0.0%WRAL staff: 4.1%WRAL: 1.7%Unattributed Quote0.0%This article: 0.0%WRAL staff: 1.3%WRAL: 0.7%Quote-first Misdirection0.0%This article: 19.0%WRAL staff: 3.5%WRAL: 3.4%Biased Writer Voice19.0%This article: 0.0%WRAL staff: 2.4%WRAL: 1.2%Indoctrination0.0%This article: 0.0%WRAL staff: 0.0%WRAL: 1.8%Politically Left Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%WRAL staff: 0.0%WRAL: 0.9%Politically Right Leaning Bias0.0%This article: 0.0%WRAL staff: 1.5%WRAL: 0.1%Attempt to Sell a Product or S…0.0%

84 words analyzed.

Speakers

3speakers56%attributed speech37writer words
Voice mapSelect a segment to jump to its words
Writer's voice • 9 words • 0.0% coverageCumberland County Sheriff's Department • 16 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 17 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 11 words • 0.0% coverageCape Fear Valley Medical Center • 15 words • 0.0% coverageCumberland County Sheriff's Office Homicide Unit • 16 words • 0.0% coverage
100%flagged-word coverage
16 attributed words34% of attributed speech0% writer coverage
0%50.0%100.0%Biased Writer Voice+100.0 ptsWriter: 0.0%Cumberland County Sheriff's Department: 100.0%100.0%

Attribution is sentence-level. Pattern percentages are calculated only from words assigned to that voice.

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Analysis

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