A van rammed into the crowd at Berlin's Pride festival on Saturday night, killing one person and injuring at least 16. Police are hunting a named suspect they warn may be armed and dangerous. That's the event. Here's how four newsrooms translated it. * NBC's headline: "One dead and 16 injured after van drives into crowd during Berlin Pride festival." Read it again. The van drives. Nobody is driving it. Sixteen people were hurt by a vehicle that, grammatically, acted alone. * Which would be a defensible choice — early hours, thin facts, don't get ahead of the police — except NBC's own article reports that police issued a wanted notice for a 21-year-old, warned the public he may be "armed and dangerous," and said several people were "apparently" stabbed too. A headline van can ram a crowd on its own. It cannot stab anyone. * CNN went the other direction and didn't stop: "Berlin Pride attack: Manhunt after van ramming kills festival-goer." The word "attack" is doing confident work there, because at the same moment Berlin police were saying investigators had no information on "his specific motives." Berlin's mayor called it "an attack on our free and cosmopolitan society," the interior minister called it "cowardly" and "abhorrent" — and CNN took the officials' word and printed it as the story's name. * Fox found a third lane: "At least 1 dead, several injured after van rams into crowd at Pride festival; suspect 'known to police.'" The suspect makes Fox's headline before he makes anyone else's — and by paragraph four Fox is into his "alleged ties to Islamic groups." The victims are numbers; the suspect gets the character development. * And Al Jazeera covered a van hitting Berlin Pride without putting "Pride" in the headline: "One dead, 16 injured as car slams into crowd at Berlin LGBTQ event." An "LGBTQ event." Christopher Street Day is one of Europe's biggest Pride marches — hundreds of thousands of people — and AJ's headline filed it under the most generic label on the shelf. * Same van, same night, four grammars: NBC couldn't find the driver, CNN already knew what it meant, Fox led with who to fear, and Al Jazeera wouldn't say the word Pride. The first 24 hours is when headlines do their heaviest lifting — which makes it exactly the moment to notice which questions each newsroom answered before the police did.