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Texas hunters claimed they were shot by ‘illegal aliens.’ Authorities say they shot each other.

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Hunting guides Walker Daugherty and Michael Bryant were leading a hunting party in southern Texas in early January, when they claimed immigrants illegally crossed the nearby Mexico border, converged on their camp in the middle of the night and tried to rob them.

Gunfire erupted. When the smoke cleared and the fight was over, Daugherty was bleeding from a shot to his abdomen. Another member of the party had been shot in the arm.

After being airlifted to the hospital, the men told authorities that immigrants who crossed the border from Mexico wanted to steal an RV some of the hunters were using. In statements made through friends and family, they went further, suggesting that the assailants wanted to kill everyone in the party, as the Albuquerque Journal reported.

A GoFundMe page set up by a family friend to cover Daugherty’s medical bills raised $26,300 from more than 200 donors.

The story was harrowing, to be sure, not to mention rife with political implications. The Texas Agriculture Commissioner even shared it on his Facebook page, saying it underscored the need for President Trump’s proposed border wall.

But authorities say it was all a lie.

Daugherty and Bryant were indicted last week on one count each of using deadly conduct by discharging firearms in the direction of others, according to CBS 7. Presidio County Sheriff Danny Dominguez told the station that an investigation had found Daugherty and the other injured hunter were struck by friendly fire. There was no sign, he said, that anyone else was involved.

It wasn’t clear whether Daugherty or Bryant had retained attorneys or entered pleas.

Daugherty, Bryant and a group of their clients had been hunting at the Circle Dug Ranch, a 15,000-acre tract of valley land just a few miles from the Mexico border in Texas. On the night of Jan. 6, a deputy in the sheriff’s office responded to a call for a shooting, and when he arrived he found Daugherty and 59-year-old Edwin Roberts suffering from gunshot wounds.

Authorities were suspicious from the beginning. Prompted by the group’s claims that illegal immigrants were responsible, U.S. Border Patrol dispatched 30 agents to sweep the area, aided by expert trackers and thermal imaging technology, Big Bend Now reported. Daugherty and his fiancee claimed to have previously seen immigrants crossing the border and through their property, according to CBS 7.


Within days of the shooting, however, the sheriff ‘s office said there was “no evidence that suggests cross-border violence” and “no sign of human pedestrian traffic leading to or from the ranch that night.”

“There were no bullet casings or projectiles from weapons other than those belonging to the individuals hunting on the ranch nor in the RV belonging to the hunting party,” the sheriff’s office told Big Bend Now in mid-January.

By then, however, the rumors had already spread. A rancher and family friend in Arizona released a statement based on the Daugherty family’s account, describing the incident as a brutal, calculated attack by “illegal aliens.”

“The attack has the family concerned that the attack was not just an attempt to rob the property,” the statement read, according to the Albuquerque Journal. “They believe the assailants intended to kill all the party. The attackers were strategically placed around the lodge, and the men were fired upon from different areas.”

Sid Miller, the Texas Agriculture Commissioner, shared the story with his 400,000-plus followers on Facebook.

“This is why we need the wall and to secure our borders,” Miller wrote in a since-deleted post that was shared more than 6,500 times. “There are violent criminals and members of drug cartels coming in and it must put a stop to it before we have many more Walker Daughertys.”

What really happened, Sheriff Dominguez said, was much simpler and less nefarious: Daugherty shot his client, and Bryant shot Daugherty.

Dominguez told CBS 7 that the hunters may have become paranoid from reports of violence crossing over the border from Mexico. But he said they need not worry.

“Border Patrol are experts in tracking in this area,” Dominguez said. “We trust what they say because that’s all they do on a daily basis, and they didn’t find no sign, no indication that there was anybody in or out of that area that night.”

两个猎人在美墨边界附近一座牧场打猎时受伤，报警却诓称遭到偷渡客袭击，但当地警方调查后证实是误伤，原来狩猎团中的两人半夜摸黑开枪，导致另两人受伤。

德州普里西多郡警长表示，没有迹象显示，边界地区发生偷渡客的暴力行动，而是猎人道特瑞(Walker Daughetry)开枪打中了罗伯兹(Edwin Roberts)，布兰特(Michael Bryant)又开枪击中了道特瑞。

偷渡客攻击的消息在普里西多郡引起轰动，有人设立捐款网站，数千人纷纷解囊。道特瑞说，偷渡客试图抢走他的休旅车，而车里还有狩猎团的其他团员，因此他们向偷渡客开枪。

筹款是帮助道特瑞支付医疗费，因为他没有保险，已借款2万3000元。但捐款人听到开枪事件是道特瑞编出来的后都表示震惊。该郡警长说，当时是布兰特开枪打中道特瑞，道特瑞击伤了罗伯兹。

道特瑞以为是无证移民占据他的休闲车，而车里有罗伯兹和妻子，无证移民试图绑架他们。道特瑞没有表明自己是谁，就朝汽车开火。车里的罗伯兹也向外开枪，但没有打中道特瑞，道特瑞后来得到布兰特的增援。

两人受伤后，救护车需要两小时才能赶来，幸好狩猎团里有一位家属是护士，为伤者疗伤，才止住流血。