Reader and regular commenter 4.0 Stance passes along an important correction today to the widespread and incredible reports out of Alabama this weekend that an Alabama fan shot an LSU fan and his wife dead in a dispute after the Tide's overtime win in Baton Rouge. Turns out the shooter and victims were all Crimson Tide fans:

Relatives of the couple, meanwhile, disputed accounts that an argument over the University of Alabama vs. Louisiana State University football game sparked the gunfire.

"My brother was an adamant Alabama fan," said Shannon Odom, half-brother of Dennis Smith, who was killed along with his wife, Donna Hall Smith.

To be very clear, people on the Internet didn't just make up the deadly rivalry angle: That's what police told reporters, either from witnesses' statements or from the shooter himself (either that, or the reporters themselves invented it for the stories that made the rounds on Monday). However the argument began, I think it was always obvious that it went beyond a football game.

Second, let this be a lesson to all of us occasionally churning out copy with our hair on fire: You can report on the details of two terrible, untimely, tragically pointless deaths if you must. But the family will be damned if they're going to let you malign them as LSU fans.