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On 23 August 2016, the web site TMZworldstar (or TMZuncut) published an article reporting that a police officer (and Klan member) in Gary, Alabama shot a teenager named Jorevis Scruggs after mistaking his saxophone for a gun: The image actually came from April 2016 news coverage of a 15-year-old named Jorevis Scruggs, who was shot and killed by police in St. Louis, Missouri — but not while he was holding a saxophone, and not in Gary, Alabama (a city that, incidentally, doesn't exist). The saxophone shooting hoax was published by TMZworldstar/TMZuncut, sites related to the fake news outlet TMZWorldNews. All of the sites appropriated TMZ's name and included no disclaimer warning readers that its content was satirical. Previous fabrications from that cluster of sites included a similar claim that a cop shot a black baby after mistaking a pacifier for a gun, a story that a penile implant could alert women to cheating husbands and boyfriends, a tall tale about a college student left in a coma after participating in a social media semen-drinking challenge, a falsehood holding that KKK members committed suicide en masse over the Harriet Tubman $20 bill, news of a non-existent study revealing 80 percent of black men in Atlanta were gay, and claims police found a satanic dungeon under a Chuck E. Cheese.
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