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13 October
5:29 pm

Four Irondequoit residents were killed recently by an illegal migrant, two of those victims were children under the age of five.

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Bruce Blakeman, at New York Governor General Election Debate (Spectrum News)

5:29 pm
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Why we checked itSpecific number of deaths in a named location attributed to an undocumented immigrant, with specific detail that two victims were under age five. Verifiable against public records.
What we foundFour Irondequoit residents were indeed killed, and two child victims were under age five, but the claim overstates the fact by attributing the killings to a single 'illegal migrant' when two suspects were convicted, and the immigration status of both was not definitively confirmed at the time of the debate.
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