Source: The Boston Globe
On March 11, 2003 The Boston Globe reported that "for a small town (Hull, Iowa), it was an unusual crime: a gas
station robbed, two teens shot. The suspect? An unnamed Hispanic male... Suddenly, a ripple of fear rolled through the area's small but growing Latino
community as longtime residents shook their heads and pointed fingers... But when the two white youths who were wounded confessed in court last month
that they had invented the story after shooting themselves, both in the left
shoulder, and taking $1,800 from the register,...
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