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1 dies in New Mexico school shooting; student detained

Commander Kyle Hartsock “Of course it’s extremely dif-
described the shooting as an ficult,” he said of something Authorities identified the
isolated incident between the like this happening so early man who was killed as Law-
two students, who were be- in the school year. “There’s rence Anzures, a 30-year old
lieved to be about 13 years a lot of pressure in the com- boxer from Albuquerque.
old. He said a school re- munity. People are nervous.
source officer ran toward the It was a terrible incident “Any small piece of informa-
two boys after gunfire erupt- that happened between two tion can help in turning this
ed, and prevented any other people. It should have never into a prosecutable case so
violence. happened. ... This shouldn’t that the family and friends of
happen in the community. It Lawrence can get the justice
Hartsock said investigators certainly shouldn’t happen at they deserve,” Hartsock said.
were trying to determine how a school.”
the student obtained the gun While standing at an inter-
and what may have prompted Police said more officers will section near the school, top
(AP) — One student was Albuquerque Public Schools the shooting. He said other be present when students police officials were asked
killed and another was Superintendent Scott Elder students will be interviewed return, hoping to provide a by reporters about the ongo-
taken into custody Friday said during a news confer- as detectives try to piece to- sense of security and in case ing violence in Albuquerque.
after a shooting at a mid- ence with police that it was gether what happened. students have any more in- The city for years has had
dle school near downtown a terrible day for the district formation about the shoot- problems with high crime
Albuquerque during the and the whole community. The school was locked down, ing. rates, but the officials pointed
lunch hour, police said. and parents were asked to to other cities across the U.S.
“I want to send out my pick up their children. Gunfire also rang out Thurs- that are now also seeing in-
The gunfire at Washington thoughts and prayers to all of day night at a sports bar and creases.
Middle School marked the our students, all of our fami- Friday marked just the third restaurant near a busy Albu-
second shooting in New lies that are impacted by this day of classes for Albuquer- querque shopping district. “I think it takes not only po-
Mexico’s largest city in less horrible event,” he said. que’s public school district. Police said one person was lice, but the community as
than 24 hours. Albuquerque While students won’t return killed and three were injured well to do something about
is on pace to shatter its homi- Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham until Tuesday, Elder said the after someone pulled out a this problem and address it
cide record this year, having said she was heartbroken and school staff will be making gun during a fight. head on,” said Deputy Chief
already matched within the noted more work needs to be preparations to ensure stu- Eric Garcia. “Right now, this
first eight months of the year done to address gun violence dents have access to coun- No arrests have been made in is a community issue. It’s not
the previous annual high of in the state. seling and any other support that case. Investigators were just a police issue. We all have
80 homicides set in 2019. services they need. reviewing surveillance video to work together.”
Albuquerque police Deputy and interviewing witnesses.

Prominent fact-checker Snopes apologizes for plagiarism

(AP) — The co-founder nior leadership. two Webby Awards and originally published under was removing unattributed
and CEO of the fact- served as one of Facebook’s the Mikkelson pseudonym content while leaving up in-
checking site Snopes.com “Let us be clear: Plagiarism fact-checking partners be- Jeff Zarronandia, three under dividual pages. An editor’s
has acknowledged plagia- undermines our mission and tween December 2016 and Mikkelson’s name and the note will be used to outline
rizing from dozens of ar- values, full stop. It has no February 2019, BuzzFeed rest as “Snopes staff.” Snopes the issues and link to original
ticles done by mainstream place in any context within News said. In recent years, said it has identified 140 sto- sources.
news outlets over several this organization,” the state- the site has been the focus ries with possible problems,
years, calling the appro- ment said. of a contentious ownership including the 54 found to in- “We are in the process of ar-
priations “serious lapses battle between Mikkelson clude appropriated material. chiving and retracting all of
in judgment.” In a separate statement, eight and the company that bought the offending stories, along
current Snopes writers also Hamel’s shares. Snopes also cited AP material with disabling any monetiza-
From 2015 to 2019 — and condemned Mikkelson’s ac- that wasn’t properly attrib- tion features on those posts,”
possibly even earlier — David tions, while former staffers BuzzFeed News flagged sto- uted. It did not specify which the statement said. “We will
Mikkelson included material indicated to BuzzFeed that ries from a range of outlets stories. attempt to contact each news
lifted from the Los Angeles he routinely encouraged the that also include The New outlet whose reporting we
Times, The Guardian and practice as a way to make York Times, CNN, NBC Senior management said in appropriated to issue an apol-
others to scoop up web traf- Snopes appear faster than it News and the BBC. Six were the statement that Snopes ogy.”
fic, according to BuzzFeed was.
News, which broke the story
Friday. Mikkelson did not imme-
diately return an Associated
Mikkelson used his own Press email seeking comment
name, a generic Snopes by- Saturday. He told BuzzFeed
line and a pseudonym when his behavior was due to a lack
he lifted material, including of formal journalism experi-
single sentences and whole ence.
paragraphs on such subjects
as same-sex marriage and “I didn’t come from a jour-
the death of David Bowie, nalism background,” he said.
without citing the sources, “I wasn’t used to doing news
BuzzFeed and Snopes said. aggregation. A number of
times I crossed the line to
He has been suspended from where it was copyright in-
editorial production pend- fringement. I own that.”
ing the conclusion of an in-
ternal review but remains Created in 1994 under a dif-
CEO and a 50% shareholder ferent name by Mikkelson
in the company, according to and his then-wife, Barbara
a statement from Snopes’ se- Hamel, Snopes has earned