South Florida's Rob Hiaasen, novelist Carl Hiaasen's brother, killed in newsroom shooting

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Source: South Florida Sun-Sentinel

Novelist and Miami Herald columnist Carl Hiaasen’s brother was among those killed Thursday in a newsroom shooting in Annapolis, Maryland, his family confirmed.

Rob Hiaasen was assistant managing editor and a columnist at The Capital newspaper where he was hired in 2010. He was 59.

“There was no finer human being, there just wasn’t,” Rob Hiaasen’s widow, Maria, said Thursday night, her 58th birthday. “And certainly no finer father, and he was a damn fine journalist too.”

A birthday package from her husband still awaited her, Maria Hiaasen said. Rob Hiaasen had asked her if she wanted to open her gift Thursday morning, but she told him she’d rather wait until he got home from work.

http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/florida/fl-reg-rob-hiaasen-obit-20180628-story.html

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[scarletwoman]

1. That is so sad! What a damn waste! nt

[MontanaMama]

2. There is blood on the hands of the pResident.

[Initech]

3. Yup - his violent rhetoric against the press got people killed.

[Cha]

4. Yeah, and he's too chickenshit to comment on what

he glorifies.

From the leader to the North on our gun violence in Maryland..

Link to tweet

[Paladin]

5. So very sorry to hear this. I'm a big Carl Hiaasen fan.

And like others here, I assign significant responsibility for this newspaper slaughter to trump---and disgusting trump acolytes like Milo Y.

[Sunlei]

9. RIP Rob Hiaasen. To many Journalists killed, about 80 in 2017, it's horrible.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_journalists_killed_in_2017