Daughter of Bank Robbery Hostage shares inside info on Twitter

This Twitter message came to me several minutes before law enforcement could tell us that the hostage crisis was over.

It’s from Kathryn Moore whose mom Sheila was in the bank, one of the last people to leave the building, after police say a gunman came into the Greenville First Bank to rob the place.

Kathryn actually lives in Georgia, but follows me on Twitter to keep up with news in the Greenville area.  She had no idea, “keeping up,” would ever involve her discovering her mom was in the middle of a breaking news story.

She followed my news updates with all the developments and also fed me information as she was able to get it from her mom.  Information that I was able to share with you.

My thanks to her for helping us to break the most important development in this story… that it was finally over!

Just another example of Twitter playing a critical role in an important developing news story.