Police: NC teacher, coach killed in shootout with Mexican drug cartel
The Associated Press
GREEN LEVEL A popular teacher in North Carolina has died in what authorities said was an old Western shootout with members of a Mexican drug cartel.
The Charlotte Observer reported Wednesday that Barney Dale Harris, 40, taught Spanish and was head coach of the boys varsity basketball and track teams at Union Academy Charter School in Monroe.
He was found dead April 8 in an Alamance County mobile home that authorities called a drug stash house.
Alamance County Sheriff Terry Johnson said Harris and his brother-in-law had entered the mobile home waiting for a cartel member to arrive so they could rob him of drugs and money.
Officers at the Alamance County trailer park after a shootout that left two people dead April 8.
Last weekend, we talked about a tale of two crises: As the coronavirus pandemic, which is still a gargantuan challenge, decreases in intensity, the gun violence epidemic one again floods into the spotlight. That was just as true last week when a mass shooting claimed six lives near
Rock Hill, South Carolina, as it was this week when eight people were shot and killed at a
And the gun violence hasn t been limited to mass killings that capture nationwide headlines. It s a problem that reaches nearly every nook and cranny in America, in the Carolinas, in greater Charlotte.
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Replay Video UP NEXT When a popular Charlotte-area teacher and coach died suddenly this month, the entire school community mourned his loss. Someone painted a large rock outside Union Academy Charter School in his honor, scrawling “ Then came a shocking revelation. A sheriff across the state announced at a Wednesday news conference that Barney Dale Harris, a beloved presence at the Monroe, N.C., high school since 2017, had been killed in a gun battle while trying to steal drugs and cash from a Mexican drug cartel.
Barney Dale Harris, a Spanish teacher at Union Academy Charter School, was shot and killed when he robbed a stash house of drugs and money, according to police. He was with his brother-in-law, Steven Alexander Stewart Jr., who has been charged with first-degree murder, first-degree burglary and possession of a firearm by a felon. Johnson said Alonso Beltran Lara, 18, was also killed in the shootout; the sheriff described Lara as a drug runner.
So what role do drug cartels play in the network that distributes drugs across North Carolina?
Drugs from cartels in Mexico move across the borders into the U.S, ending up in the hands of what UNC Charlotte criminology associate professor Matt Phillips calls “a very loose affiliation of organizations that receive narcotics from those cartels and distribute throughout the United States.”