Boy chases away man who shot his dad with kitchen knife

"A Broward dad is lucky to be alive after he was shot"

----- but not "to death". There is 'shoot' and 'shoot to death'. I wonder how Chomsky would analyse the phrase, 'to death'. It bored me "to tears". "I'm bored to death". "It bores me to death". He was shot 'to death' seems to be a different use of 'to death'. But surely, perhaps, by following, "be as informative as is required", one need to have added, 'not to death' in the headline:

Boy chases away who shot his dad not to death with kitchen knife.

---- The implicature of 'dad' is that he is alive. It would be TOO frivolous, even for a journalist, to refer to a dead father as a 'dad', I expect.

Plus, it's a 'kid' who can call a 'dad' dad -- not a grown up, we expect, journalist.

"during a botched robbery attempt."

As opposed to a non-botched success.

"And he has his 9-year-old son to thank for it. Police are searching for a suspect who shot Rodney Shepard in front of his three sons"

Is 'three' necessary? I feel I need to know their ages. It seems we have a little hero here -- but what if the other sons were 16 and 21? I would feel that the OLDER sons should have done something, rather. Plus, perhaps it was clumsy of the 9-year older to 'chase away' the shooter rather than, dunno, knocked him down?

"Monday evening in Plantation."

Shouldn't this be "a" plantation? Strawson notes that sometimes, common nouns ('congress') grow capitals ("the Congress") only to drop the 'definite iota operator' ('the'): "Congress". How named this plantation Plantation? Is that lack of imagination or what?

"The shooting happened shortly before 5 p.m. Monday at the home on the 4500 block of Northwest 3rd Court. According to police,Shepard and his three boys, 8-year-old twins and a 9-year-old son, were confronted by a family acquaintance outside the house."

I'm relieved the hero was the eldest.

"As they talked to the acquaintance, known as "Dred" or "Dred O," a Mercedes pulled into the driveway and a man with a handgun jumped out of the car and approached them.
The gunman ordered Shepard into his house and began to search his pockets for valuables."

-- money basically.

"Shepard and the gunman began to struggle, and Shepard wound up shot in the leg."

-- wound up with a wound, literally.

"The 9-year-old got a kitchen knife in attempt to ward off the gunman, who fled the scene. Dred also fled the scene." But dread FILLED the scene.