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Briana Erickson, an investigative reporter at the Las Vegas Review-Journal, celebrated her 28th birthday on Friday with, as one does on Labor Day Weekend, an out-of-town getaway. She did not expect to hear the next day that her team member was found dead.
She did not expect the follow-up news on Sunday to be even worse: that he was killed.
The cascade of horrible developments in the aftermath of Review-Journal investigative reporter Jeff German’s murder reached a pinnacle on Wednesday evening after Robert Telles, an elected official in Clark County, Nevada, was arrested at his home. The coverage of the pursuit was led by Review-Journal reporters, who have finally gotten the chance to grieve the colleague they lost.