A Facebook status

I know Facebook isn't really fair game because nobody uses their best grammar/spelling/intelligence there. However, sometimes I long for a perfect world in which news organizations can construct logical sentences to make simple status updates. Take this, for example:

Here is a reminder to be safe when out hunting. It is day two and one injury has been reported. On Saturday, the Grant County Sheriff's Department says a hunter accidentally fired a shot into palm of hand. Police say was seat in an elevated ladder stand. He was loading his .45 semi-automatic handgun, when the gun discharged striking him in the palm of his left hand.

This is five sentences. Just five. Again, I realize it is unrealistic to expect journalists to be able to construct five consecutive sentences. And the first two sentences are fine. But then this happens:

On Saturday, the Grant County Sheriff's Department says a hunter accidentally fired a shot into palm of hand.

OK, I'll admit the capitalization here is impressive. I've made fun of our local NBC affiliate for that before. But nice job. However, halfway through this sentence they seem to have forgotten to turn their notes into complete sentences. "Fired a shot into palm of hand"? Possibly this is a traditional journalistic technique in this situation. To be fair, I'm not a journalist, so I may not know these things. 

Police say was seat in an elevated ladder stand.

Again, I realize this is a Facebook update, and I should really not be so hard on journalists. But it would just be so awesome if people who got paid to write or speak for a living could construct complete sentences. 

He was loading his .45 semi-automatic handgun, when the gun discharged striking him in the palm of his left hand.

I'm going to pretend that comma is after the word "discharged" instead.

Hey, local NBC affiliate. Good news! If you were playing baseball, your .400 sentence structure completion average would be awesome!