"Edward Dismuke, 38, of Oakland was riding a bicycle when he was shot at about 9:50 p.m. near the corner of 38th and Allendale avenues. He was taken to Highland Hospital in Oakland, where he was pronounced dead."
link to the story: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/09/17/BAVV12VNAS.DTL&type=newsbayarea
I think the writer used a narrative lead here because maybe they don't have the whole story so they just decided to give the whole story away in the summary lead instead of writing about it in the next paragraph. The writer doesn't have that much information on the story.
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You know, this actually is the second sentence of the story. The first sentence--the lead--was a classic summary lead. In fact, I may use this as an example of how to go from your summary lead to the second sentence.
Remember, a lead includes the first sentence. A narrative lead will probably go two or so paragraphs long, telling an actually story about someone.
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