“False Reports Link Sahil Omar to Kansas City Shooting and Genesse Moreno to Texas Church Attack: AP Fact Check”

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A Roundup of False Stories and Visuals Shared on Social Media

Here is a summary of some of the most popular but completely untrue stories and visuals that were widely shared on social media this week. The Associated Press has checked these claims and found them to be false.

Posts Share Erroneous Information about Suspect Identification in Kansas City Mass Shooting

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CLAIM: A 44-year-old migrant named Sahil Omar was identified as one of the shooters at the Kansas City Chiefs’ Super Bowl parade on Wednesday.

THE FACTS: According to the Kansas City Police, three juveniles were detained in the investigation into the shooting that occurred at the conclusion of the parade festivities. One of the juveniles was later released. The name Sahil Omar, along with the same description, has been used in similar erroneous claims on social media, linking him to a January explosion in Fort Worth, Texas, and a December shooting in Las Vegas.

Social media users falsely attributed the violence to a 44-year-old migrant living in the country illegally, following the shooting that resulted in the death of a mother of two and left 22 injured. However, Kansas City Police Chief Stacey Graves stated that there was no nexus to terrorism or home-grown violent extremism in this case.

The Texas Megachurch Shooter Has Not Been Identified as Transgender, Despite Claims Online

CLAIM: The shooter who carried out an attack injuring two people at a Texas megachurch on Sunday has been identified as transgender.

THE FACTS: Houston police have determined that the shooter, Genesse Ivonne Moreno, identified as female despite using multiple aliases, including the name Jeffery or Jeffrey Escalante. Court records and past police reports confirm Moreno’s identification as female. Claims about Moreno’s gender identity being transgender are baseless and untrue.

Many social media posts used these false claims about Moreno’s gender identity to propagate a baseless narrative about a rise in transgender or nonbinary mass shooters. However, experts have stated that mass casualty shootings perpetrated by.

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