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‘Samantha Hyde’ was not the Apalachee High School shooter.

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Maria Ramirez Uribe is an immigration reporter at PolitiFact. Previously she served as a Report for America corps member, working as a race and equity reporter...
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Hours after a teenager shot and killed four people at Apalachee High School in Winder, Georgia, an X user claimed the suspect had been identified.

“BREAKING: Apalachee High School shooter has been identified as non-binary trans girl Samantha Hyde,” the Sept. 4 post said.

Zany: I need to butt in here and say something. How sick are these people to do this when there had just been a real school shooting? You think it’s funny? Go back to the basement and watch Andrew Tate videos, a-hole. ? (Sorry. I had to get that out.

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If this name seems familiar, it’s because for almost a decade, people have been falsely pinning tragedies on a person by this or a similar name: that of comedian Sam Hyde.

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ByMaria Ramirez Uribe
Maria Ramirez Uribe is an immigration reporter at PolitiFact. Previously she served as a Report for America corps member, working as a race and equity reporter in Charlotte, North Carolina, for WFAE, an NPR member station, and La Noticia, the state’s biggest Spanish-language paper. Before this, Maria worked as a freelance researcher for CNN’s international desk. She graduated from North Carolina’s Elon University with a double major in journalism and strategic communications and a double minor in international relations and peace and conflict studies.