By Sarah Tate
Apr 14, 2021
A basketball coach at a Union County high school was killed last week during a shootout with a drug cartel in Alamance County,
WBTV reports.
According to the Alamance County Sheriff s Office, deputies arrived at the scene of a reported shooting at a mobile home park in Green Level shortly before 1 a.m. Thursday (April 8). When came to the scene, they found two people had been shot inside one of the trailer homes. The men were later identified as
Barney Dale Harris and
Alonso Beltran Lara. Harris, a coach at Union Academy Charter School, was pronounced dead at the scene while Lara was taken to a hospital where he succumbed to his injuries.
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Barney Dale Harris, 40, was shot dead when he raided the cartel s stash house in Green Level, north-west of Raleigh, on April 8 to steal drugs and cash
Harris and his brother-in-law Steven Alexander Stewart broke into a mobile home used by the cartel after tracking them with electronic devices
Authorities say the shootout broke out after Harris and Stewart shot dead an 18-year-old cartel member who confronted them
Harris, who was wearing a bullet proof vest, was killed in the shootout
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Basketball coach killed in shootout with drug cartel in North Carolina, investigators say
Detectives said Barney Harris and his brother-in-law went to rob a cartel stash house in Alamance County. A suspected cartel member and Harris died.
Credit: Union Academy Charter School Author: Megan Allman (WFMY News 2 Digital), Grace Holland, WCNC Staff Published: 11:13 AM CDT April 14, 2021 Updated: 11:23 PM CDT April 14, 2021
ALAMANCE COUNTY, N.C. A high school basketball coach in Union County was killed in a shootout with a Mexican drug cartel in Alamance County, North Carolina, last week, deputies said.
According to the Alamance County Sheriff’s Office, Barney Harris died on Thursday, April 8 in a shootout with a drug cartel at a mobile home park in Green Level. Investigators said Harris and his brother-in-law, Steven Stewart of Anson County, went to a stash house to steal money and drugs from the cartel.