Home Invasion Gone Wrong: It Never Happened
Sorry to all you gun rights and ammo nuts in advance; that story of the 11 year old girl in Butte, Montana shooting illegal aliens is a hoax. The story has been printed as fact on some anti-gun control and anti-immigration Web sites for their own propaganda purposes. Isn’t it funny how people who love guns and hate Mexican immigrants tend to think alike!
According to the Mt Standard:
A dramatic story about a shooting that supposedly happened in Butte last year is nothing more than an urban myth.
The bogus story has been circulating for the past year on Internet blogs and Web sites concerning a girl shooting two men who broke into her Butte home in November 2006.
According to the fabricated story, an 11-year-old Butte girl shot two “illegal aliens” with a shotgun after they broke into her home. The shooting supposedly took place on Nov. 5, 2006, according to Internet posts.
When asked about the authenticity of the events described in this story, Butte-Silver Bow Sheriff John Walsh told The Montana Standard in an earlier interview that his office never investigated such an incident.
“This never happened,” Walsh said.
The story claims the girl shot and killed the two intruders while she was home alone. The story doesn’t provide a street address or attribute the information to any official sources.Walsh brushed off the story of an urban myth.“It’s amazing how these things get around,” he said. Numerous people from all over the United States have contacted The Montana Standard in the past year via e-mail or phone to verify if the story was true. The story is often given the headline “Home Invasion Gone Wrong.” A recent search for this story on the Internet search engine Google.com returned with more than 400 hits.
The story has been printed as fact on some anti-gun control and anti-immigration Web sites. The phony story identifies the 11-year-old girl as Patricia Harrington, who shoots and kills the two “illegal aliens” identified as Ralphel Resindez and Enrico Garza.
The Verdict: Fake News. It never happened.
