{"id":19431,"date":"2024-07-22T01:01:02","date_gmt":"2024-07-22T00:01:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/?p=19431"},"modified":"2024-07-22T01:01:05","modified_gmt":"2024-07-22T00:01:05","slug":"misleading-viral-image-of-boy-with-multiple-gunshot-wounds-not-from-liberia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/misleading-viral-image-of-boy-with-multiple-gunshot-wounds-not-from-liberia\/","title":{"rendered":"Misleading! Viral image of boy with multiple gunshot wounds not from Liberia"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Claim:<\/strong> \u201cThe Liberia National Police shot a boy in the Rehab community,\u201d an online news media alleged. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Verdict:<\/strong> Misleading! The published photo of the boy with multiple gunshot wounds is named Kennedy Onyango. He is from Kenya, not Liberia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Full Text<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

As part of its usual operations of raiding criminals in the country, the Liberia Drugs Enforcement Agency (LDEA), alongside the Liberia National Police (LNP), carried out its operations in the Rehab community of Paynesville City.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, what was to be an operation of arrest<\/a> and confiscation of drugs turned out to be a scene of the discharge of live bullets by the LNP, resulting in the death of a teenage boy, James Kandy, an online platform in Liberia reported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Liberia Online Media (LOM) made a post<\/a> with two images, with one of the images displaying a boy with more than seven gunshot wounds in the back, while the other is a boy with one gunshot wound in the chest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They alleged that the LNP had shot a teenage boy in the Rehab community.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of the gruesome images shared was a boy believed to be Kennedy, with more than seven gunshot wounds on his back. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

As of this publication, the post attracted 11 shares, 15 reactions and 8 comments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The disturbing image triggered DUBAWA to verify the accuracy of the post.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Verification<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

DUBAWA contacted the family of the late James Kandy and one of his elder brothers, identified as Morris Boetee, confirmed that the image of the boy with one gunshot wound in the chest is his brother, James.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Photo of James Kandy Photo source: Analyst Liberia\u00a0<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

He, however, clarified that the image of the boy with multiple gunshot wounds is not his brother, saying his brother did not sustain those multiple gunshot wounds in his back, as displayed in the second image.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

DUBAWA ran the viral photo on Google Images and found that the image with the multiple gunshot wounds is not James Kandy as claimed by the online media. Rather, reports suggest the 12-year-old boy in the picture is  Kennedy Onyango from Kenya, as can be seen here<\/a>, here<\/a>, here<\/a>, and here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Conclusion<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The viral image of a boy with multiple gun wounds is from Kenya, not Liberia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Claim: \u201cThe Liberia National Police shot a boy in the Rehab community,\u201d an online news media alleged.  Verdict: Misleading! The published photo of the boy with multiple gunshot wounds is named Kennedy Onyango. He is from Kenya, not Liberia. Full Text As part of its usual operations of raiding criminals in the country, the Liberia Drugs Enforcement Agency (LDEA), alongside the Liberia National Police (LNP), carried out its operations in the Rehab community of Paynesville City. However, what was to be an operation of arrest and confiscation of drugs turned out to be a scene of the discharge of live bullets by the LNP, resulting in the death of a teenage boy, James Kandy, an online platform in Liberia reported. The Liberia Online Media (LOM) made a post with two images, with one of the images displaying a boy with more than seven gunshot wounds in the back, while the other is a boy with one gunshot wound in the chest. They alleged that the LNP had shot a teenage boy in the Rehab community. One of the gruesome images shared was a boy believed to be Kennedy, with more than seven gunshot wounds on his back.  As of this publication, the post attracted 11 shares, 15 reactions and 8 comments. The disturbing image triggered DUBAWA to verify the accuracy of the post. Verification DUBAWA contacted the family of the late James Kandy and one of his elder brothers, identified as Morris Boetee, confirmed that the image of the boy with one gunshot wound in the chest is his brother, James. He, however, clarified that the image of the boy with multiple gunshot wounds is not his brother, saying his brother did not sustain those multiple gunshot wounds in his back, as displayed in the second image. DUBAWA ran the viral photo on Google Images and found that the image with the multiple gunshot wounds is not James Kandy as claimed by the online media. Rather, reports suggest the 12-year-old boy in the picture is  Kennedy Onyango from Kenya, as can be seen here, here, here, and here. Conclusion The viral image of a boy with multiple gun wounds is from Kenya, not Liberia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19432,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"hannibal_claim_source":"","hannibal_source_label":"","hannibal_card_color":"blue","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_wpscppro_dont_share_socialmedia":false,"_wpscppro_custom_social_share_image":0,"_facebook_share_type":"default","_twitter_share_type":"default","_linkedin_share_type":"default","_pinterest_share_type":"default","_linkedin_share_type_page":"","_instagram_share_type":"default","_medium_share_type":"","_threads_share_type":"","_google_business_share_type":"","_bluesky_share_type":"","_mastodon_share_type":"","_selected_social_profile":[],"_wpsp_enable_custom_social_template":false,"_wpsp_social_scheduling":{"enabled":false,"datetime":null,"platforms":[],"status":"template_only","dateOption":"today","timeOption":"now","customDays":"","customHours":"","customDate":"","customTime":"","schedulingType":"absolute"},"_wpsp_active_default_template":true},"categories":[1571,4,1960,119],"tags":[],"verdict":[],"ppma_author":[3786],"class_list":["post-19431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fact-check","category-featured","category-liberia","category-security"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8R6dE-53p","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"authors":[{"term_id":3786,"user_id":0,"is_guest":1,"slug":"gloria-wleh","display_name":"Gloria Wleh","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&r=g","author_category":"","user_url":"","last_name":"","first_name":"","job_title":"","description":""}],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Image-of-Kennedy-Onyango.-Photo-source-Gustavo.jpg?fit=382%2C512&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19431"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19431\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19433,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19431\/revisions\/19433"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19431"},{"taxonomy":"verdict","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/verdict?post=19431"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=19431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}