- Bowling GreenTexas Digest: Hunters who blamed immigrants are charged in shooting
Feb. 19, 2017
Hunters charged in shooting had blamed immigrants
Two hunters accused in a shooting on a remote Texas ranch near the Mexican border had told authorities that they were attacked by immigrants who had entered the country illegally.
These hunters became the "poster boys" for Trump supporters to justify the wall and confirm his anti-immigrant agenda.
Presidio County Sheriff Danny Dominguez told Odessa television station KOSA that a grand jury indicted Michael Bryant and Walker Daugherty last week on charges of using deadly conduct by discharging firearms in the direction of others.
The charges stem from a Jan. 6 incident in which police responding to call about a shooting on a ranch near Candelaria found Daugherty and another man in the hunting party, Edwin Roberts, with gunshot wounds. The men were part of a group of hunters and told authorities they were attacked by people who had illegally crossed the nearby border and tried to steal an RV some of the hunters were using.
An investigation found that Daugherty shot Roberts and Bryant shot Daugherty, Dominguez said.
The hunters’ claim became fodder for a Facebook post by Texas Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller, who wrote the attack was another reason a wall must be built to secure the Texas border to halt “violent criminals and members of drug cartels coming in.”
Authorities said that about 30 officers searched the perimeter of the ranch where the hunters were staying but didn’t find signs of people approaching the camp and that investigators found no evidence of “cross-border violence.”
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Another claim that outsiders are attacking citizens hits the dust.
In this case the hunters shot each other thinking that they were illegal immigrants and were too embarrassed to tell the truth.
These hunters became the "poster boys" for Trump's anti-immigrant and "wall" agenda.