Week 5 Practice Writing Assignment: Reporting on a Robbery

Using these three elements below (Robbery Notes, Police Report & Video Interview), write a 250-350 word story of this incident. Continue below the elements for more information.

Your story should:

Have a clear and attention-grabbing lead of no more than 35 words.
Incorporate news values as appropriate to the story (timeliness, proximity, conflict, prominence, impact, oddity, etc.)
Be written in inverted pyramid style, with the most important news at the top.

Include two quotations. Be sure to check for proper formatting on quotes and attribution!
Be free of any opinion or first person accounts.
Include a headline with an active verb.

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