Posted on 05/25/2022 6:22:16 PM PDT by Morgana
A transgender woman was wrongly accused of being the teenage gunman who opened fire on a Texas elementary school.
Photographs of 20-year-old Sam, of Georgia, whose last name has been omitted for her own safety, have been shared on social media after someone on 4chan, an anonymous online forum, claimed she was shooter responsive for Tuesday's school massacre.
'Here's the shooter's Reddit,' the user posted on 4chan along with a link to Sam's personal Reddit account shortly after Salvador Ramos, 18, opened fire on Robb Elementary School, killing 19 children and two teachers.
Republican Rep. Paul Gosar, of Arizona, helped spread the rumor by posting on Twitter that the gunman was a 'transsexual leftist illegal alien named Salvatore Ramos.' Gosar's tweet has since been deleted and he did not immediately respond to DailyMail.com's request for comment.
However, despite Gosar removing his tweet, Sam's photo continues to be shared online.
'This isn't the first time I was harassed, but it is the first time I've been accused of murder,' Sam told NBC News on Wednesday.
Sam claims she has been facing growing threats of harassment as the photos, which were ripped from her personal Instagram account, continue to be shared.
On Tuesday, in an effort to stop further spread of lies, Sam posted a photo of herself on Reddit standing in front of a trans pride flag.
'It's not me, I don't even live in Texas,' she wrote, adding that she just wants 'to live without being attacked when I leave my house.'
Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, are reportedly removing the posts falsely identifying Sam as the shooter because the content violates its Bullying & Harassment policy, which forbids posts 'in which criminal allegations pose off-line harm to the named individual.'
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The media should be ashamed of themselves for lying. I don’t think they are, unfortunately.
See https://gab.com/Quietactgreat/posts/108360906001807854
Some actual pics of the perp in skirts were mixed with this other person so as to provide an easy ‘debunk’ of the actual perv nature of the perp.
The people who posted the same pictures to FR should also be ashamed of themselves.
I have no sympathy for any transgenders. Too bad.
(s/b "Ramos" not "Romas" but it IS him.
Better now?
Not even close. Keep it up and he/she will own your house.
“This IS the shooter wearing a skirt:”
Prove it, you’re so sure.
Same media that says Ukraine is winning the war, too.
That’s not a woman, either.
Prove it, you’re so sure.
You're wasting your breath with these fools. They keep it up, they'll dig their own graves.
Yes, that’s what I saw.
Not sure if shooter was a cross dresser or not, but think its still time to sort out details and not yet time to make political points about details that might turn out mistaken.
Media now describing the shooter as “alternative” with a “habit of wearing eyeliner” for which he was mocked with homophobic slurs.
https://twitter.com/RealCandaceO/status/1529582617062158336
It looks like him
I will see some blond actress and say to my wife “Is that so and so?”. She just laughs and says “Well - they are both blonde I guess.”
The killer’s face is much narrower with a very narrow jaw line and sharp features. This guy with the skirt has a much fuller face and rounded features IMHO. Their hair is similar though.
The shooter is DEAD, you idiot.
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