The Ames Police Department, with the assistance of the Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation and the Fort Dodge Police Department, was successful in solving its latest high-profile case.

The death of 19-year-old Uri Sellers was solved quickly. The crime itself was one Ames police officials were anxious to solve, literally begging the community for any information about the incident. For the most part, police were cooperative as they told various media organizations in Central Iowa what was still unknown and what they already knew.

Not everything, however, went perfectly. And we realy don’t mean to complain, but when there are at least six media organizations — three television stations and three newspapers — covering the story, it is expected that each one would be treated equally. This was not the case on Thursday afternoon.

It was at that time when Story County Attorney Mary Richards released information stating that Sellers’ murder was premeditated, an importaint bit of information. The applications for the arrest warrants of Michael Ron Runyan, 20, and Luke Joseph Abrams, 18, stated that they “did aid and abet a person willfully, deliberately, and with premeditation, kill another person.”

This is information the Daily did not have in last Friday’s paper, even after reporters called the Clerk of Court Office, which should have had this piece of public information because it handles all the arrest applications.

Richards, however, willingly sent it to The Daily Tribune sometime afterward.

One of the reasons many attend college is to learn how to behave in adult world. It’s too bad there are some “adults” out there who still treat hard-working individuals such as ourselves as just “students.” We hope that someday both “adults” and “students” will learn from this situation.