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  • 2019-08-05 (xsd:date)
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  • Was a Statement About El Paso Mass Shooting Written by Sheriff? (en)
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  • On Aug. 3, 2019, a mass shooting at a shopping center in El Paso, Texas, left 22 people dead and at least two dozen more injured. As the city reeled from the news, a piece of text attributed to El Paso County Sheriff Richard Wiles started to go viral online: Wiles truly wrote this message. It is part of a longer piece of text shared to his personal Facebook page on the night of the shooting. The entire statement can be viewed below or here on Wiles' Facebook page. We've highlighted the portion of this message that went viral on social media: To be clear, Wiles posted this message to his personal Facebook page — the El Paso County sheriff did not release this statement via the department's official social media channels. According to the El Paso Times, Wiles has been the El Paso County sheriff since 2009. Before that, he was the chief of the El Paso Police Department. (en)
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