… but I never thought it would come to this: “Student killed by strip club,” screams a Daily Southtown headline. A subhead adds helpfully, “21-year-old was shot while in car.”

Obviously, a tight head count forced this headline writer to goof up. He or she wanted to fit in the murder and the strip club somehow. Why not, “Man shot outside strip club”? Sure, you give up the student identifier but you get to keep the murder and sex, which are the important elements here.

Police did say that even after hours of interrogation the strip club had not presented an alibi.