Letter: Someone was trying to have Pitts killed

FILE - In this May 10, 2008, file photo, Leonard Pitts, speaks to the graduates at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Va. Maryland authorities are investigating an apparent “swatting” incident in which a caller made a hoax report that Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist Leonard G. Pitts Jr., may have committed a crime at his home. (John H. Sheally II/The Virginian-Pilot via AP, File) I am currently pacing through my house in disbelief. I finally got a chance to read Leonard Pitts' column from the July 7 Salt Lake Tribune.

As I began to read, I assumed Pitts was telling a story of someone to make a point for his column. When I realized that he was the story, and that he had been put in a…