The school, which is about 130 miles away from the location of the incident, said in a statement that it is “shocked and devastated to hear the information” about his death.Ī GoFundMe page organized to honor Harris’s “life and legacy” was set up on Saturday it is listed as no longer taking donations after raising just over $23,000. Harris was a Spanish teacher and basketball and track and field coach at Union Academy Charter School, which has now scrubbed its social media accounts of images and references to him. The case is ongoing and additional charges are possible, the sheriff’s office said.

Juan Daniel Salinas Lara is wanted in connection to this case and has active warrants for trafficking in cocaine his relation to Alonso Beltran Lara is unclear, but Johnson told that he believed they are kin. He is being held in the Alamance County Detention Center without bond his first court appearance is set for Tuesday, the sheriff's office said. The following day, the 32-year-old was also charged with first-degree murder and possession of a firearm by a felon. On Sunday, Stewart was arrested and charged with first-degree burglary in relation to the incident. Two vehicles that they say were involved in the incident were found in Guilford County and Alamance County. The sheriff’s office said it has seized five firearms, approximately $7,000 in cash, and 1.2 kilograms of suspected cocaine. Investigators said they found around 30 shell casings in and around the trailer. Harris was later found dead in a bedroom inside the trailer. Speaking to on Thursday, Johnson said that ' intelligence has shown they are connected to the cartel.' The gunfire attracted attention and a shootout involving multiple individuals ensued. Upon entering, Lara was overtaken, tied up, and shot twice, execution-style, in the back of the head. Lara lived in that trailer, Johnson said, along with another “Latino individual.” Police determined via cell phone data that Harris had gotten inside the trailer roughly 20 minutes before Lara arrived that night. “Harris and his brother-in-law, Stewart, were following these cartel members and were trying to figure out where the locations of these stashes were - their money - and would go in, like a home invasion, and would try to take the money and the drugs,' Johnson added. Johnson said that Lara was a drug runner for the Sinaloa New Generation Cartel - which is an alias of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel, the militarized criminal group formerly known as Los Mata Zetas. “It looked like it had been ransacked looking for money or drugs, or both.”

There were projectiles going into the trailer, coming out of the trailer, hitting other trailers in that particular trailer park,” Alamance County Sheriff Terry Johnson said at a press conference on Wednesday. “It was almost like an old western shootout. The sheriff’s office said that it is believes that Harris and Lara were a part of separate criminal enterprises and that Harris and a team of people were at the home to steal drugs and money when they were discovered. Steven Alexander Stewart, Jr., Harris’s brother-in-law, was arrested over the weekend in relation to the incident. Another man, 18-year-old Alonso Beltran Lara, was found shot at the same location he was transported to a local hospital where he later died.

after police responded to reports of gunfire at a trailer, the Alamance County Sheriff’s Office said on Wednesday.

A North Carolina father, charter school coach and teacher, along with a teenager that police say was a 'drug runner' were both shot to death last week in what the local sheriff has described as an “old western shootout” after the apparent botched robbery attempt of a notorious Mexican cartel.īarney Dale Harris, 40, was found dead wearing a bulletproof vest, mask, and gloves in the early hours of April 8 inside a trailer in Green Level, N.C.

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