Posted on 04/15/2021 6:43:04 PM PDT by MtnClimber
Investigators believe Barney Harris came to Alamance County to steal drugs and money from the Mexican cartel. They say Harris and his brother-in-law tied up a cartel member before shooting him in the back of the head. A shootout began, and Harris was killed in the gunfire.
A popular Union County teacher described by family and friends as a devoted father, teacher and coach was fatally wounded in a shootout when he and his brother-in-law tried to rob members of a Mexican drug cartel, Alamance County Sheriff Terry Johnson said Wednesday.
Barney Dale Harris, 40, taught Spanish and was head coach of the boys’ varsity basketball and track teams at Union Academy Charter School in Monroe, according to his family and the school.
Harris was shot numerous times during what the sheriff described as an “old Western shootout” between two criminal enterprises, one of the enterprises being Harris and his brother-in-law, according to Johnson.
Officers found Harris wearing a face cover, gloves and a bulletproof vest, Johnson said.
Harris and his brother-in-law, Steven Alexander Stewart Jr. of Wadesboro, entered the home waiting for a cartel member to arrive so they could rob him of drugs and money, the sheriff said.
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Who says this was his first ever robbery attempt? It wouldn’t surprise me if he’d done this several times before.
I was assuming this guy was a veteran in the low IQ, loser, lowlife drug world.
He’d blend in about as good as a Swede would in China if he were to have gone to Mexico.
You think Mexicans are black and swarthy?
This happened in my area and the guy was nuts.
Went into a trailer after following a coke shipment into a trailer and shot the gang member inside. The other members came from other trailers after hearing it and loaded him with bullets even though he had a bulletproof vest on. He hung out too long looking for coke and money and got killed in a barrage of bullets.
He was a private school teacher.
This guy should get a Darwin Award. Attempting to rob the Sinaloa Cartel is certainly a qualifier.
Teacher, huh?
lol
What else did he taught - Making drugs? He failed his test, which was permanent!!
Even 'Florida Man' isn't that stupid... all of 'em combined...
That’s right up there with making romantic overtures to a polar bear.
CC
I misread. I thought the shootout was in Mexico. I thought a black guy would stand out in Mexico. I was being sarcastic.
Why anyone would do this is beyond me. He had a decent job and a family and to go out and murder a drug dealer.
Imagine how shocked his students must be...hope he wasn’t that teacher that “everybody loved”...I think it would be really upsetting.
“Old Western shootout?” Ha. Look at the photos.
Harris [Image.]
Stewart
More photos
https://www.wsoctv.com/news/local/images-union-county/3YP7XECE7FFFZOUTDNTQTFNVFY/
Story
If the cartel took
Him Alive,,,
boot hill boot hill so cold so still
Photo caption from link #3 ...
Alamance County SO evidence photos Alamance County Sheriff’s Office says it’s seized 129 kilos of cocaine and $2.2M since Feb. 19, 2021
On one hand there was a really big score to be had.
OTOH, if they had gotten away with that loot the cartel would have hunted them down to the ends of the earth no matter how long it took.
He’s already dead Jim!
That was my thought, too.
It reads like local police think these drug runners are over the border in Mexico.
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