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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Shweta Sharma

Man admits to running over teenager he suspected of ‘links to extreme right political group’

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A man admitted to deliberately running over a teenager in North Dakota after “a political argument”, because he believed that the pedestrian was part of a Republican extremist group, according to reports.

Shannon Brandt, 41, allegedly ran over pedestrian Cayler Ellingson, 18, with his car in a McHenry alley on early Sunday following an altercation between them at a street festival.

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