During a shooting at Florida State University on Wednesday night, where three people were injured and the gunman was killed, Marisa Martin — a reporter for ESPNU's Campus Connection — apparently decided to make a joke about Jameis Winston.
The University of Alabama student originally defended her tweet, but then deleted her account entirely.
Martin has reportedly been a part of ESPNU's Campus Connection since 2012, a kind of an internship program that has a "very loose affiliation" with the network, a spokeswoman told the Washington Post.
Through Alabama's Campus Connection Twitter account, Martin then used the old fallback of saying that her account had been hacked.
@marisam24 here just letting everyone at FSU know this account was compromised tonight. Sincere apologies and an investigation is underway
The account was hacked into and we are trying to remedy the situation as best as we can.
And also tweeted at doubting users about it.
@DellBeachIII @TheEsquireof212 her account was compromised. Nothing on Twitter regarding this situation was by Marisa.
@Peejameis honest to god the account was compromised
But people were still pretty skeptical.
@UACampusConnect who hacks a low level espn reporters account? Backtracking is not gonna help
@UACampusConnect you would have been better off saying nothing. The only hack here deleted her account.
@UACampusConnect You know that no one believes that, right? I mean, nobody believed Jameis, why would we believe this?
ESPN spokeswoman Keri Potts told the Post that Campus Connection reporters "can produce content or help with production" and are not paid by ESPN.
Students are apparently told to "go out and report and send it our way, and maybe we'll use it."