“It is something that he deeply regrets.” “Given how fast the events transpired Sunday, Congressman Gonzalez took this report as reliable information,” his office said in a statement. Once that first appearance was over, he was interviewed via phone on CNN, where he said the name. Gonzalez, Aryn Fields, explained that the congressman had been given the name by a television producer while on standby with a television network, waiting to speak on the air. Gonzalez, a Democrat, told CNN as the news was breaking that the gunman’s name “was released as Sam Hyde that was the name I was given.”Ī spokeswoman for Mr.
For the last several years, his name has been surfaced by anonymous social media accounts in connection with mass shootings, to the point that “Sam Hyde is the shooter” has become an identifiable meme. Hyde is a real person, an absurdist comedian whose jokes often lean far right politically. Soon after the lawmaker, Representative Vicente Gonzalez of Texas, made the remark, the gunman was identified as Devin Patrick Kelley, 26, a former member of the Air Force. A United States congressman fell for a long-running hoax on Sunday, mistakenly telling CNN that the gunman who had killed 26 Texas churchgoers, including a pregnant woman and several children, was a man named Sam Hyde.
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